Bug#773458: unblock: amd64-microcode/2.20141028.1

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

Control: tags -1 + confirmed moreinfo

On Thu, 2014-12-18 at 14:44 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Please unblock package amd64-microcode
> 
> 
> This is a freeze policy exception request, for which I apologise.
> The package is in non-free, it is a leaf package, and it is system firmware.
> 
> This is a pre-approval request, I have not uploaded the updated package to
> non-free unstable yet.
> 
> 
> The changes look a bit more extensive than one would like, however they:
> 
> 1. Have been tested in the sister "intel-microcode" package that is in
>    jessie already.  In fact, the maintainer scripts are now nearly identical
>    between the two packages.  The code that runs inside the initramfs *was
>    not changed* (so it is also known good and there is no chance of
>    regressions).  The code that runs when building the initramfs is simple,
>    and tested.
[...]

As long as the upload can be made soon, I'd be okay with accepting this.
Please remove the "moreinfo" tag once the package has been accepted.

> Half the changes in the initramfs.hook are noise because a large block of
> code was unindented (it was inside an if clause that was removed), which
> doesn't play well with debdiff's non-whitespace-ignoring use of diff/wdiff.

debdiff has a -w switch. :-)

Regards,

Adam