Okay, well, I talked to Peter on IRC. He pointed out that:
- While there may be other platforms with firmware update mechanisms
that work in Linux, they're fringe.
- It's in Fedora as fwupdate already, so having a different name is
confusing.
- Its name doesn't currently collide with other software.
- If there are other open standards for updating firmware, he'll happily
add support for those.
So, unless there's a compelling reason (actually several given the
above), I'm going to stick with fwupdate.
--Jared
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 01:22:24PM -0500, Dominguez, Jared wrote:
I agree that the name is awful. Even upstream thinks so, but fwupdate is the
upstream name. I'm happy to use uefi-fwupdate for the Debian package if that's
what people prefer.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Hutchings [b...@decadent.org.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 11:21 AM Central Standard Time
To: Dominguez, Jared; 785...@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#785137: ITP: fwupdate -- Tools to manage UEFI firmware updates
On Tue, 2015-05-12 at 10:58 -0500, Daniel Jared Dominguez wrote:
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Daniel Jared Dominguez <jared_doming...@dell.com>
* Package name : fwupdate
Version : 0.2
Upstream Author : Peter Jones <pjo...@redhat.com>
* URL : https://github.com/rhinstaller/fwupdate
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: C
Description : Tools to manage UEFI firmware updates
fwupdate provides a simple command line interface to the UEFI firmware
updates.
Shouldn't this have a more specific name, like uefi-fwupdate?
Ben.
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