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Bug#1026335: Review of the initial packaging of the carl9170 firmware



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Dear all,

I have uploaded a new version of carl9170fw to mentors.debian.net that represents my very best work. Please review it carefully. Building it requires the just-uploaded libnewlib-sh-elf-dev version 3.3.0+8. I tend to ramble and I've already written at great deal about this peculiar package, so I will just speak here on the recent changes.

Note that I do own carl9170 hardware and have tested this package manually.

Because carl9170 is largely under the GPL and we're obligated to distribute complete sources for our binaries, I've set Static-Built-Using on both gcc (because of libgcc) and Newlib. That's what my recent tweaks in gcc-sh-elf have been about.

In addition to Paul Wise, Bastian, and other folks following my libre wireless journey, I'd like to thank the Central Indiana Linux Users Group for cheering me on.

Note that this package has a udeb. Ben said this is the right thing to do for free firmware built from source, but I don't know enough about the Debian Installer to make sure it gets integrated.

This upload will generally not be installable; the only goal is to clear NEW so we can coordinate the handover of the firmware file from firmware-linux-free to firmware-carl9170 with a subsequent upload to unstable.

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