Re: Adding firmware to FSD

[Yuchen Pei]

On 11 October 2021 21:37:55 GMT+11:00, David Hedlund <public@beloved.name> 
wrote:
>
>On 2021-10-11 11:43, Yuchen Pei wrote:
>>
>> Yuchen Pei <hi@ypei.me> writes:
>>
>>> David Hedlund <public@beloved.name> writes:
>>>
>>>>>
>>>> It seems that there are two packages available for the ath9k_htc is
>>>> a
>>>> Linux kernel driver (I linked to both above): "Firmware is required,
>>>> which can be provided by installing the firmware-atheros
>>>> <https://packages.debian.org/firmware-atheros> package. Open
>>>> firmware
>>>> <https://wiki.debian.org/ath9k_htc/open_firmware> for this driver is
>>>> also available in the firmware-ath9k-htc
>>>> <https://packages.debian.org/firmware-ath9k-htc> package starting
>>>> from
>>>> Buster. " - https://wiki.debian.org/ath9k_htc
>>>>
>>>> https://packages.debian.org/source/stable/open-ath9k-htc-firmware is
>>>> the
>>>> source package used to build
>>>> https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/firmware-ath9k-htc
>>>
>>> Thanks.  A problem with using the debian name is other distros may use
>>> different names.  For example the guix package of the same firmware is
>>> called ath9k-htc-firmware[1].  This is why I think using the
>>> "official" name is better.  Perhaps there's a way in an FSD entry to
>>> map a piece of software to corresponding packages in various distros?
>>>
>>> [1] https://guix.gnu.org/en/packages/ath9k-htc-firmware-1.4.0/
>>>
>>> Not sure if this has been discussed before, but regarding John's
>>> remark, this firmware, together with many others are in the
>>> linux-firmware repo[2], which seems to be not part of the kernel, so
>>> perhaps it makes sense to add it to FSD:
>>>
>>> [2]
>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/LICENCE.open-ath9k-htc-firmware
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> I just added <https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Open-ath9k-htc-firmware>.
>>
>I redirected it to https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Firmware-ath9k-htc
>because it will be imported later anyway. Thanks.

I guess you are talking about importing using the directory script.  I'm still 
not sure it is a good idea to adhere to the Debian naming.  The scripts should 
work for the directory, not the other way around.  What if Debian changes the 
name of a package?  What if we decide to import from guix as well?  I imagine 
it is also not hard to write some post processing script to edit names of some 
packages.

How about we make 
Firmware-ath9k-htc (and names of the same package in other distros) redirect to 
open-ath9-htc-firmware?

As aside, how often does the script run and what was the last time it was run?