Bug#785137: ITP: fwupdate -- Tools to manage UEFI firmware updates

["D. Jared Dominguez" <Jared_Dominguez@dell.com>]

Okay, well, I talked to Peter on IRC. He pointed out that:
- While there may be other platforms with firmware update mechanisms 
  that work in Linux, they're fringe.
- It's in Fedora as fwupdate already, so having a different name is 
  confusing.
- Its name doesn't currently collide with other software.
- If there are other open standards for updating firmware, he'll happily 
  add support for those.

So, unless there's a compelling reason (actually several given the 
above), I'm going to stick with fwupdate.

--Jared


On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 01:22:24PM -0500, Dominguez, Jared wrote:
> I agree that the name is awful. Even upstream thinks so, but fwupdate is the
> upstream name. I'm happy to use uefi-fwupdate for the Debian package if that's
> what people prefer.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Hutchings [ben@decadent.org.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 11:21 AM Central Standard Time
> To: Dominguez, Jared; 785137@bugs.debian.org
> Subject: Bug#785137: ITP: fwupdate -- Tools to manage UEFI firmware updates
>
> On Tue, 2015-05-12 at 10:58 -0500, Daniel Jared Dominguez wrote:
>
> > Package: wnpp
>
> > Severity: wishlist
>
> > Owner: Daniel Jared Dominguez <Jared_Dominguez@Dell.com>
>
> >
>
> > * Package name : fwupdate
>
> > Version : 0.2
>
> > Upstream Author : Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
>
> > * URL : https://github.com/rhinstaller/fwupdate
>
> > * License : GPL
>
> > Programming Lang: C
>
> > Description : Tools to manage UEFI firmware updates
>
> >
>
> > fwupdate provides a simple command line interface to the UEFI firmware
>
> > updates.
>
>
>
> Shouldn't this have a more specific name, like uefi-fwupdate?
>
>
>
> Ben.
>
>
>
> --
>
> Ben Hutchings
>
> For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. - Harrison

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Jared Domínguez
Infrastructure Software Engineering
Dell | Enterprise Solutions Group