#1032023 intel-microcode: Use non-native package format

Package:
src:intel-microcode
Source:
src:intel-microcode
Submitter:
Bastian Germann
Date:
2023-03-01 11:48:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1032023#5
Date:
2023-02-26 17:06:14 UTC
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To:
autotools-dev uses source format 3.0 (native) even though it has an upstream.
It should use 3.0 (quilt) instead, using "-" instead of "." to separate the Debian revision.
#1032023#10
Date:
2023-03-01 11:15:24 UTC
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tags 1032023 + wontfix  wishlist
thanks

No.  The quilt format is not suitable for this package.  It can be made to work, but it will result in an strictly worse source package.

I would have to switch to multi-upstream tarballs, and end up with a worse result: larger, and harder to handle. We need decent control of symlinks, and binary data for this package to avoid possible issues, diff/patch/quilt is *not* the appropriate tool.

Also, what we ship in intel-microcode is *not* what upstream ships, it is a curated, expanded version of the microcode data set using several past packages to still update older, EOLd processors (and we sometimes disable some microcode updates as well).