Your message dated Sat, 22 May 2010 16:25:40 +0000
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and subject line Bug#574158: fixed in hw-detect 1.77
has caused the Debian Bug report #574158,
regarding firmware licenses never displayed
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Package: hw-detect
Severity: important
firmware-ipw2100 has a license prompt that is supposed to be displayed
to the user. If this firmware is loaded by d-i from media supplied by
the user, this prompt is never actually displayed.
In #504668, it's claimed that the license's FAQ allows this,
which is the only reason I have not made this bug serious, yet.
Conversely, in #449235, decisions seem to be made assuming that
d-i will display the firmware prompt.
I see three approaches to fixing this bug:
1. Change the post-base-installer hook to not install firmware debs
with dpkg -i. It needs to use apt for debconf frontend proxying to
work. One approach might be to move this to a pkgsel hook, and use
the already available firmware debs to prepopulate
/var/cache/apt/archives, so they don't have to be downloaded again.
Only problem with this approach is it fails if the user, in
apt-setup, chooses not to use non-free, or even chooses to install
without a network mirror. In this case, the installed system might
end up without firmware needed to boot.
2. Rip the debconf frontend proxy setup code out of
debconf-apt-progress, and adapt so it can be used with dpkg -i.
Or hack debconf-apt-progress to support running dpkg -i.
3. Provide some way for firmware debs to communicate to d-i that they
have a license the user needs to see, and have check-missing-firmware
display these licenses before the firmware is ever used. This is
probably the most general approach, as it will allow us to support
firmware where it's a hard requirement that the user sees the license.
(Which may already be the case, depending on which lawyers you ask?)
One way would be to add a header to the firmware deb:
License-Agreement: /usr/share/doc/firmware-ipw2x00/copyright
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Source: hw-detect
Source-Version: 1.77
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
hw-detect, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
archdetect_1.77_i386.udeb
to main/h/hw-detect/archdetect_1.77_i386.udeb
disk-detect_1.77_all.udeb
to main/h/hw-detect/disk-detect_1.77_all.udeb
ethdetect_1.77_all.udeb
to main/h/hw-detect/ethdetect_1.77_all.udeb
hw-detect_1.77.dsc
to main/h/hw-detect/hw-detect_1.77.dsc
hw-detect_1.77.tar.gz
to main/h/hw-detect/hw-detect_1.77.tar.gz
hw-detect_1.77_i386.udeb
to main/h/hw-detect/hw-detect_1.77_i386.udeb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 574...@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
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Petter Reinholdtsen <p...@debian.org> (supplier of updated hw-detect package)
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Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 17:58:26 +0200
Source: hw-detect
Binary: hw-detect ethdetect disk-detect archdetect
Architecture: source i386 all
Version: 1.77
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Petter Reinholdtsen <p...@debian.org>
Description:
archdetect - Hardware architecture detector (udeb)
disk-detect - Detect disk drives (udeb)
ethdetect - Detect network hardware and load kernel drivers for it (udeb)
hw-detect - Detect hardware and load kernel drivers for it (udeb)
Closes: 572369 572785 574116 574158 577451
Changes:
hw-detect (1.77) unstable; urgency=low
.
[ Frans Pop ]
* check-missing-firmware: install loose firmware files in subdirectories
if that's where the kernel expects them. Closes: #572785.
.
[ Petter Reinholdtsen ]
* Use discover-pkginstall to install hardware related packages
automatically during installation (Closes: #577451). Run it
from pre-pkgsel to make sure a upgraded discover package is
available.
* Make sure check-missing-firmware follow symlinks and copy the
content to make sure symlinked firmware files work too.
* Move code checking for firmware in check-missing-firmware to a
separate function, to allow it to be used several places.
* Also look for firmware debs and udebs in the PXE initrd and
on the CD media, in a firmware/ directory (Closes: #574116).
* Add cross building support (Closes: #572369). Patch from
Hector Oron.
* Run preinst script of firmware debs in case there is a license
question there to accept, and do not activate firmware if the
preinst script return non-zero exit code (Closes: #574158).
.
[ Joey Hess ]
* Remove myself from Uploaders.
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