Hi, Pascal Hambourg <pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org> (2025-04-24): > Control: severity 1095302 important > Control: merge 1095302 -1 > Control: reassign -1 netcfg 1.194 > > [Please send replies to the bug mail address, not only mine] > > On 24/04/2025 at 12:59, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > > I did think about merging, but wasn't sure about the priority. Don't you > > think this deserves "important"? > > I am not sure either but let's raise the original bug priority anyway, merge > and reassign the two bugs to netcfg. If anyone objects, the priority can be > lowered.
The difference between normal and important is a matter of opinion, and that doesn't really factor in what we're going to do about these bug reports anyway. Important looks good to me. (Also, when a submitter considers their bug to be covered by another bug report, an option would be to close their bug, mentioning that's a duplicate of another one, or that the other one is more complete, precise, etc.) > To d-i people: adding nl80211 and wifi 7 support to netcfg looks like > a big task and I guess it is way too late to do it before Trixie > release. ISTR someone asking for help to implement/test that, but I couldn't deal with that at the time (or now), but I had some vague hopes to look into it (either assisting or hacking myself) “in the near future”. I'm not sure how prevalent Wi-Fi 7 is at the moment, but it seems to me this is definitely something we should tackle, and that might be worth considering as a backport to Trixie (via point releases) (1) if and when support has landed and has been tested, and (2) if backporting doesn't seem crazy (code/packaging change wise, and risk wise). > However wouldn't it be desirable to mark wifi 7 controllers as > unsupported in netcfg and in the installation guide in order to limit > user frustration ? If we can easily spot unsupported cards and not offer them at all (ignore entirely, with explicit log lines in syslog?) and also document that in the installation guide, that'd be nice to have. Best if that can land in 13.0; OK if that lands in 13.n, n>0. (Until support comes along and is considered for a possible backport as detailed above.) Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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