[Bug 1738272] Re: microcode packages, like firmware packages, should be in main

[Christian Ehrhardt ]

FYI
There was a request on IRC to also promote firmware-sof
Moving that here to have an auditable trail why things were changed - also I guess we'd want to have an explicit ack by the kernel team that this is the very same case.

>From #ubuntu-release
[11:53] <luis220413> ubuntu-archive: Please move the firmware-sof source package to main to be consistent with linux-firmware. See bug
[11:53] <luis220413> See bug 1738272

Even if all other special firmware cases apply this still would need an owning team.
http://reqorts.qa.ubuntu.com/reports/m-r-package-team-mapping.html lists kernel-packages as the owner, so that aspect should be fine indeed.

@Kernel Team - or most likely @apw - do you agree and want this promoted
as maintained by the kernel team?

@Luis:
This isn't listed in https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/component-mismatches-proposed.html so there would need to be a dependency or seed change to hold it in main.
Do you know (if not coordinate with the kernel team please) where this will be done before being promoted? [Without that it would again fall out of main in the next few hours after promotion]

** Also affects: firmware-sof (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: firmware-sof (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

** Changed in: firmware-sof (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Andy Whitcroft (apw)

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Title:
  microcode packages, like firmware packages, should be in main

Status in firmware-sof package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in intel-microcode package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in iucode-tool package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  The MIR for intel-microcode and iucode-tool in LP: #1388889 requested
  that these packages be shipped in restricted.

  The iucode-tool package is free software, and is shipped in restricted
  only because of the circular recommends with intel-microcode.

  The intel-microcode package contains non-free software (free
  redistribution, but no source code).  However, this code is not part
  of the OS; it runs /under/ the OS on the CPU, and is analogous to
  linux-firmware, which we do include in main.

  The question of suitability for restricted vs. main in Ubuntu was not
  examined as part of the previous MIR, and the security team signed off
  on it for "restricted or main as appropriate"; so I think the decision
  to put it in restricted was not based on a thorough examination of the
  facts by an archive admin, and does not represent a precedent that
  needs to be examined further.

  I believe that these two packages should be promoted to main for
  consistency.

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