add firmware-tools to Ubuntu

Added comments to http://revu.tauware.de/details.py?package=firmware-tools

Due to a policy change (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-motu/2007-November/002684.html) I set this bug back to 'In Progress'. 'Fix Committed' was decided to be only used for NEW packages that have been uploaded to the archive and are sitting in NEW.

New upload corrects most of the comments noted by Daniel, though I have not generated manpages for the applications at this time.

I need to get triggers added (here and in the BIOS payload packages) before this is ready for upload. I had forgotten that step, and am figuring it out now.

Trigger added, version 1.5.9-0ubuntu2 uploaded to REVU.

debian/triggers contains:
interest firmware-tools-update-firmware

debian/postinst contains:
if [ "$1" == "triggered" ]; then
    for t in $2; do
        if [ "$t" == "firmware-tools-update-firmware" ]; then
            /usr/bin/update_firmware --rpm -y
        fi
    done
fi

and BIOS payload debs debian/postinst contains:
if [ "$1" == "configure" ]; then
   dpkg-trigger firmware-tools-update-firmware
fi

and this works as expected - the update_firmware command is run only once at the end of the dpkg transaction.

Note, this requires a new versioned dependency on dpkg (>= 1.14.5ubuntu6) in both firmware-tools and dell-repo-tools-generated payload debs. This version of dpkg is only available in gutsy and higher. I have no automatic solution for feisty, at best we could change the dpkg-trigger line to be || : to do nothing, and tell people to manually run update_firmware.

I meant to include a note about the the debianizer Sadhana B. She was a Dell intern, no longer with Dell, so I don't really want her name and invalid email address in the package. Hence I used firmware-tools team <email address hidden> which is both true and valid.

uploaded to Hardy Universe on 17-Dec-2007.

The bug task for the somerville project has been removed by an automated script. This bug has been cloned on that project and is available here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1305819