Your message dated Thu, 8 Nov 2018 11:26:05 -0700 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line closing has caused the Debian Bug report #842690, regarding Please rethink the packaging layout to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: src:edk2 Version: 0~20160813.de74668f-2 Severity: wishlist Hi! [0] shows the binary packages currently being built from src:edk2: * The "ovmf" package contains the build for x64 in /usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_{CODE,VARS}.fd * The "qemu-efi" contains the build for aa64 in/usr/share/AAVMF/AAVMF_{CODE,VARS}.fd Neither the package names nor the file paths seem very intuitive, and also using upper case is just unnecessary typing work for the user. This becomes even more important if you try to fix #842683 [1], so I propose a scheme looking something like this: * There is only one arch:all package called "ovmf" containing the builds for all architectures. * The actual firmware files could be named like this: /usr/share/ovmf/$arch.$type where $arch would be the UEFI-style architecture name in lower case, i.e. "ia32", "x64", "ia64", "arm", "aa64" [2] and $type would be one of "code", "vars", "unified" (for the deprecated variant with code and vars in one file). * Compatibility is ensured by providing a transitional qemu-efi package depending on the ovmf package and the ovmf package carrying symlinks for all previously used file paths. What do you think? Best regards Alexander Kurtz [0] https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/edk2 [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=842683 [2] http://www.uefi.org/specifications, version 2.6, section 3.5.1.1
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 0~20161202.7bbe0b3e-2 I'm going to go ahead and close this as I think the general concerns have been discussed and - where appropriate - addressed. Leaving this bug open is a honey trap for bike shedders. But, please feel free to open new bugs to address specific issues.
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