Bug 1222319

Summary:	kernel-firmware-* packages have duplicate WHENCE license files
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Tumbleweed	Reporter:	Fabian Vogt <fvogt>
Component:	Kernel	Assignee:	openSUSE Kernel Bugs <kernel-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Minor
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	tiwai
Version:	Current
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Hardware:	Other
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Description Fabian Vogt 2024-04-04 13:17:39 UTC

The "WHENCE" file is >300K and included as %license in all kernel-firmware-* packages:

/usr/share/licenses/kernel-firmware-usb-network/WHENCE
/usr/share/licenses/kernel-firmware-ueagle/WHENCE
/usr/share/licenses/kernel-firmware-ti/WHENCE
/usr/share/licenses/kernel-firmware-sound/WHENCE
/usr/share/licenses/kernel-firmware-serial/WHENCE
/usr/share/licenses/kernel-firmware-realtek/WHENCE
/usr/share/licenses/kernel-firmware-radeon/WHENCE
/usr/share/licenses/kernel-firmware-qcom/WHENCE
/usr/share/licenses/kernel-firmware-platform/WHENCE
/usr/share/licenses/kernel-firmware-nfp/WHENCE
/usr/share/licenses/kernel-firmware-network/WHENCE
/usr/share/licenses/kernel-firmware-mwifiex/WHENCE
/usr/share/licenses/kernel-firmware-mediatek/WHENCE
/usr/share/licenses/kernel-firmware-media/WHENCE
/usr/share/licenses/kernel-firmware-marvell/WHENCE
/usr/share/licenses/kernel-firmware-intel/WHENCE
/usr/share/licenses/kernel-firmware-i915/WHENCE
/usr/share/licenses/kernel-firmware-dpaa2/WHENCE
/usr/share/licenses/kernel-firmware-bnx2/WHENCE
/usr/share/licenses/kernel-firmware-bluetooth/WHENCE
/usr/share/licenses/kernel-firmware-atheros/WHENCE
/usr/share/licenses/kernel-firmware-ath12k/WHENCE
/usr/share/licenses/kernel-firmware-ath11k/WHENCE
/usr/share/licenses/kernel-firmware-ath10k/WHENCE
/usr/share/licenses/kernel-firmware-amdgpu/WHENCE

This could be optimized by moving common files into a separate package or maybe not shipping this at all. I'm not sure whether the info inside is actually necessary, it mostly just links to the actual license files?

Comment 1 Takashi Iwai 2024-04-04 13:36:29 UTC

We may move them to kernel-firmware-all and kernel-firmware(-uncompressed) packages.

Comment 2 Takashi Iwai 2024-04-04 13:40:58 UTC

Actually kernel-firmware-all and kernel-firmware already contain WHENCE, so we can just drop them from other kernel-firmware-* packages.

The original intention was to cover the license texts in each sub package; the licenses aren't always provided as external text files but sometimes shown in texts in WHENCE file.  But it makes little sense to pack it in each subpackage, indeed.

Comment 3 Takashi Iwai 2024-04-05 08:53:05 UTC

The fix submitted to TW.