zaptel-firmware package and dependencies

Kilian Krause kilian at debian.org
Wed Jul 25 13:47:36 UTC 2007


Tzafrir,

On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 04:23:06PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> The tarball of Zaptel includes several firmwares:
> * For Digium cards: for hardware echo canceller modules and such.
> * For the Xorcom devices: USB and FPGA firmwares.
> 
> In zaptel 1.4 some of the Digium firmwares are not included in the
> tarball, and are downloaded only in the install target.
> 
> Those firmwares are arch-independent (run on some
> processor/fpga/whatever on the device). Their license allows
> redistribution but the source is not included, and hence they are not
> included in main.

Why not make a debconf query in the maintainer postinst script and have
them be downloaded if agreed by the user?


> However some people are interested in using them (some of them are even
> known to be our customers). What I'd like to do is to use a recent
> version of zaptel with zaptel-source/zaptel-modules(-kernelver) and to
> provide the user a zaptel-firmware package of the appropriate version. I
> wonder if it is possible to do without rebuilding a modified zaptel
> package myself.

Not having a source to these binary blobs makes them not suitable for
Debian for sure. But these driver parts can be perfectly legally
downloaded by a maintainer script.

> The first problem is that the version numbers are different, so I can't
> use easily an automatic relation to the original Debian package.

If they support a latest version URL of the firmware and the ABI remains
solid enough to work over different zaptel versions, I don't see why
this should not work for us and your customers. Maybe check
msttcorefonts which does exactly this.

-- 
Best regards,
Kilian
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