Bug#1140391: marked as done (hw-detect/firmware-lookup in hw-detect.templates should be 'string' not 'text')

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has caused the Debian Bug report #1140391,
regarding hw-detect/firmware-lookup in hw-detect.templates should be 'strin=
g' not 'text'
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Source: hw-detect
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

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

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--- a/debian/hw-detect.templates
+++ b/debian/hw-detect.templates
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ Description: for internal use; can be preseeded
 
 # This is an initial implementation, which might evolve over time (#1029848):
 Template: hw-detect/firmware-lookup
-Type: text
+Type: string
 Default:
 Description: for expert use; can be preseeded
  Setting this to "never" makes check-missing-firmware and install-firmware

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Source: hw-detect
Source-Version: 1.176
Done: Colin Watson <[email protected]>

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
hw-detect, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
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Colin Watson <[email protected]> (supplier of updated hw-detect package)

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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:12:51 +0100
Source: hw-detect
Architecture: source
Version: 1.176
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Colin Watson <[email protected]>
Closes: 1140391
Changes:
 hw-detect (1.176) unstable; urgency=3Dmedium
 .
   [ Holger Wansing ]
   * Fix lintian error (policy violation; 'untranslatable-debconf-templates').
 .
   [ Pascal Hambourg ]
   * Change hw-detect/firmware-lookup type to "string", so that it appears
     in the preseed list at https://preseed.debian.net/debian-preseed/.
     Thanks to [email protected] for the patch!
     Closes: #1140391.
 .
   [ Colin Watson ]
   * ethdetect: Don't misdetect VLAN interfaces as primary physical
     interfaces (related to #433568).
 .
   [ Updated translations ]
   * Northern Sami (se.po) by B=C3=B8rre Gaup
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