Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?
On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 04:13:57PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 05:08:57PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> >On Thu, Oct 06, 2022 at 05:13:22PM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote:
> >> Maybe and idea would to do something like isa-support does for e.g sseX-support
> >> on CPUs that does not have that feature: It fails on installation with an debconf message, IIRC.
> >> So that would allow something like "new package" | "you-need-to-enable-nonfree-firmware-reminder-package"
> >>
> >Failing on installation is a terrible user experience, let's not, pretty
> >please.
>
> It's not great, no. Do you have a better suggestion for making sure
> people update sources.list?
We can display a debconf error (which debconf tries really really hard
to show to the user) and then succeed?
Alternatively, the package could install an apt hook that nags the user
every time they run "apt update" or equivalent, and that turns silent if
the updated firmware packages are installed (because of the difference
between "purge" and "remove").
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