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

[Guillaume Tucker]

On 09/12/2020 13:14, Wookey wrote:
> 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?

Yes it sounds like Debian should stop packaging this driver as we
now have working Panfrost drivers which are truly free software.

Guillaume

> ----- 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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> 	FROMDEVELOPER,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MURPHY_DRUGS_REL8,
> 	RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no
> 	version=3.4.2-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02
> 
> 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
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----
> Wookey
> 
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