nvidia gsp firmware package name

Luca Boccassi bluca at debian.org
Mon Jul 11 21:46:16 BST 2022


On Mon, 11 Jul 2022 at 20:11, Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Luca and all,
>
> I'm a bit undecided on the naming of a package for the nvidia gsp firmware:
>
> Either
> Package: ${nvidia}-gsp-firmware
> Provides: nvidia-gsp-firmware-${nvidia:Version}
> (that sounds more natural)
>
> or
> Package: firmware-${nvidia}-gsp
> Provides: firmware-nvidia-gsp-${nvidia:Version}
> (there are more ^firmware-* than *-firmware* in the archive)
>
> Opinions and suggestions welcome.

Hi,

Given we have firmware-amd-graphics and many more, I guess the second
one makes a bit more sense in following the existing pattern? Same as
we have xserver-xorg-video-nvidia, rather than
nvidia-xserver-xorg-video.
But just a suggestion, both would work.

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi



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