Dear maintainers,

hw-detect/debian/hw-detect.templates [1] lists hw-detect/firmware-lookup as
Type: text

but it should instead be
Type: string

This means that hw-detect/firmware-lookup is absent from the complete list of
debian preseeds [2] because the script [3] that generates those lists handles
"Type: string" and not "Type: text".

Trivial patch attached.

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/hw-detect/-/blob/master/debian/hw-detect.templates?ref_type=heads#L107
[2] https://preseed.debian.net/debian-preseed/
[3] https://git.einval.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=steve-scripts.git;a=blob;f=extract_template.pl;h=e1c66320135d9f721ff23f00e0bb5ca740901796;hb=HEAD#l54

<https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/hw-detect/-/merge_requests/20>

The same issue exists with other debconf items, e.g.:

- base-installer/kernel/altmeta in
base-installer/debian/bootstrap-base.templates -> merge request
<https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/base-installer/-/merge_requests/14>

- iso-scan/filename in iso-scan/debian/iso-scan.templates but AFAICS it
is not intended to be preseeded, so I guess it does not matter.

- netcfg/dhcp_ntp_servers in netcfg/debian/netcfg-dhcp.templates but
AFAICS it not intended to be preseeded either. Note: it is read by
clock-setup but not set by netcfg any more since commit fac74c749 ("Deal
with stateless DHCPv6"). Is this intended ?

Hello,

Bug #1140391 in hw-detect reported by you has been fixed in the
Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit
message below and you can check the diff of the fix at:

https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/hw-detect/-/commit/42a144b71541c0d23e6c9102d958098ff58d84b2
Current type "text" is skipped in preseed master list.

Closes: #1140391
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https://bugs.debian.org/1140391