Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?
* Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> [221014 01:35]:
> On Thu, 2022-10-13 at 17:35 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
>
> > I'd prefer if we could make things work vs making things fail,
> > however loudly.
>
> There seem to be a few ways to deal with this transition:
>
> 2. Add some code somewhere to automatically modify the apt sources,
> somehow ensure that code is run by all Debian users and hope that other
> automated processes (like ansible/puppet) don't overwrite those changes
> and hope that users aren't storing apt sources config in packages,
> which would mean conffile prompts after the modification happens.
Actually, I think this would work really well. Do not modify any
existing sources.list; drop a new file in sources.list.d. This file can
have a default name that includes "firmware-nonfree" so is highly
unlikely to exist, but if it does, add "-NNN" suffix with the smallest
numeric NNN that does not exist.
Of course, the file would only be added if the current sources do not
include that component, which would _really_ decrease the probability of
a file name conflict to be about the same as the probability of the
earth being destroyed by an asteroid.
...Marvin
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