[Bug 2046871] Re: migrate to upstream release/coreNN branch

[Dave Jones]

It looks like comment #2 and comment #3 have been addressed, as well as
the concerns about upstream lacking a stable versioning convention (i.e.
they have, but we've been ignoring it). I checked the upstream repo and
there are indeed years of release/coreNN branches, and the proposed PPA
matches the upstream release/core88 branch.

One minor thing of note during a test build of the binary package:
lintian warns that a dependency on dh-dkms is missing. It isn't; the
package depends on dh-sequence-dkms which is a virtual provided by dh-
dkms, so the warning is incorrect, but it may be worth altering the
build-depends to avoid it in future.

Anyway, sponsoring for oracular.

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Title:
  migrate to upstream release/coreNN branch

Status in backport-iwlwifi-dkms package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in backport-iwlwifi-dkms source package in Noble:
  New
Status in backport-iwlwifi-dkms source package in Oracular:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  In the past we're tracking the upstream master branch and create new
  builds upon the lastest HEAD available at the moment. This, however,
  creates ambiguity for tracking backport-iwlwifi development &
  releases, because the upstream puts more emphasis on the coreNN
  releases instead of the development branch master when investigating
  support of new hardware models.

  Currently backport-iwlwifi-dkms/noble, versioned 11510-0ubuntu1, is
  built from upstream revision 11520, which maps to upstream git commit
  41e354fb5f32 that is a few commits behind the release/core84 HEAD
  commit 6d8764841123 (revision 11517). To migrate to release/core84
  branches, it follows we will have to rebase our work to release/core84
  HEAD and to fix debian version with an additional epoch. The proposed
  new version nubmer is 1:84.<rev>-git<hash>-0ubuntu1.

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