Bug#950332: buster-pu: package wireless-regdb/2019.06.03-1~deb10u1
Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
Tags: buster
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: pu
I failed to update wireless-regdb for some time, as it needed some
significant work to prepare for the regulatory database being directly
loaded by the kernel (instead of by crda). This was introduced in
Linux 4.15, but is currently disabled in all Debian suites. It will
be enabled starting with 5.5.
The version now in unstable has:
1. regulatory.bin: loadable by crda, trusted by Debian crda
2. regulatory.db-debian, regulatory.db.p7s-debian:
loadable by kernel, trusted by future Debian kernels
3. regulatory.db-upstream, regulatory.db.p7s-upstream:
loadable by kernel, trusted by upstream and future Debian kernels
4. regulatory.db, regulatory.db.p7s: alternative links for either
(2) or (3)
So this should be backward-compatible with all supported Debian
releases, with one exception:
On a system that has a recent kernel and (3) from elsewhere, *and*
also a currently unused wireless-regdb package, upgrading
wireless-regdb will effectively replace (3) with (2), which is not
trusted by their kernel. They will need to run update-alternatives to
fix this (this is documented in README.Debian).
The update for (1) definitely should be delivered to all suites, but
I'm undecided whether the other files should be included. Please
advise what I should do.
Ben.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
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