XPost: linux.debian.kernel
Hi Ben,
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 08:06:06PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Fri, 2017-03-31 at 19:40 +0200, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
Am 31.03.2017 um 19:17 schrieb Ben Hutchings:
On Fri, 2017-03-31 at 18:52 +0200, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
[..]
I don't think it makes any sense. Why should we symlink some thing different/not_stable to file name of stable firmware?
Especially if we have 1.dev.0?
firmware-ath9k-htc package should and can provide any latest possible version of firmware form git. All possible distribution patches are welcome as well.
firmware-ath9k-htc-v1.5 should provide stable version without any chanes. This is needed to make sure suers are able to fall back to working version of firmware even if firmware-ath9k-htc will brake connection.
If this package is not going to provide a stable ABI then I'll consider adding a Breaks instead.
I'm not sure what you mean.
Firmware filenames are supposed to indicate ABI versions. Just like
shared library sonames. Just like kernel module directory names.
You've told me that you're not going to do this. So it sounds like the kernel will need to have something like 'Breaks: firmware-ath9k-htc (>= 1.5~)'.
Can we close this old bug (i.e. by now doing nothing)?
Regards,
Salvatore
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)