Package: hw-detect Severity: important firmware-ipw2100 has a license prompt that is supposed to be displayed to the user. If this firmware is loaded by d-i from media supplied by the user, this prompt is never actually displayed. In #504668, it's claimed that the license's FAQ allows this, which is the only reason I have not made this bug serious, yet. Conversely, in #449235, decisions seem to be made assuming that d-i will display the firmware prompt. I see three approaches to fixing this bug: 1. Change the post-base-installer hook to not install firmware debs with dpkg -i. It needs to use apt for debconf frontend proxying to work. One approach might be to move this to a pkgsel hook, and use the already available firmware debs to prepopulate /var/cache/apt/archives, so they don't have to be downloaded again. Only problem with this approach is it fails if the user, in apt-setup, chooses not to use non-free, or even chooses to install without a network mirror. In this case, the installed system might end up without firmware needed to boot. 2. Rip the debconf frontend proxy setup code out of debconf-apt-progress, and adapt so it can be used with dpkg -i. Or hack debconf-apt-progress to support running dpkg -i. 3. Provide some way for firmware debs to communicate to d-i that they have a license the user needs to see, and have check-missing-firmware display these licenses before the firmware is ever used. This is probably the most general approach, as it will allow us to support firmware where it's a hard requirement that the user sees the license. (Which may already be the case, depending on which lawyers you ask?) One way would be to add a header to the firmware deb: License-Agreement: /usr/share/doc/firmware-ipw2x00/copyright -- see shy jo
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