[Pkg-Mali-devel] Fw: Bug#975921: mali-midgard: Contains auto-generated file without corresponding source

[Wookey]

Someone has filed a bug pointing out that the mali driver contains a
generated file without the means to generate it, and software must be
delivered in the 'preferred form of modification' not some obfuscated
form. 

Can we just add the missing script (and the config it uses) to the
source? Or is that part of the non-free bit of the DDK?

On the one hand this is just another header file describing hardware
config, but on the other it is pretty obfuscated and is not the
'preferred form' - changes should be done elsewhere.

Do we agree that in fact this driver is not meeting the definition of
free software and should be thrown out of debian?

Possibly no-one actually cares as this is now very old, and it only
works on a couple of boards, so maybe it would be a mercy and we can
use the free drivers now?

----- Forwarded message from Jessica Clarke <jrtc27 at debian.org> -----

Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 17:15:47 +0000
From: Jessica Clarke <jrtc27 at debian.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
Subject: Bug#975921: mali-midgard: Contains auto-generated file without corresponding source
Reply-To: Jessica Clarke <jrtc27 at debian.org>, 975921 at bugs.debian.org
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Source: mali-midgard
Version: 16.0+pristine-4
Severity: serious

mali_base_hwconfig_issues.h currently has:

> /* AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED FILE. If you want to amend the issues/features,
>  * please update base/tools/hwconfig_generator/hwc_{issues,features}.py
>  * For more information see base/tools/hwconfig_generator/README
>  */

Unless patches to this file are accepted, this is not the preferred
form, and the mentioned scripts do not exist (I assume they are
Arm-internal scripts).

Jess

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Wookey
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