Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> (2016-05-22): > All the binary packages built from firmware-nonfree get it > automatically, but I forgot there were so many other firmware packages. > Maybe your way is better for now. ACK. Easy enough to toggle between both anyway. Maybe I should even keep both codepaths active and use them to detect inconsistencies between file list in Contents and Appstream metadata in Components… > > amd64-microcode > > atmel-firmware > > bluez-firmware > > dahdi-firmware-nonfree > > firmware-crystalhd > > firmware-ipw2x00 > > firmware-ipw2x00 does have it. Alright. I ran diff plus some pipes, without checking each and every package, which explains this kind of false positive. It seems the following files are under lib/firmware but not listed in Appstream metadata: lib/firmware/ipw2x00.LICENSE lib/firmware/isci/isci_firmware.bin Not sure about the former but I suppose the latter should be listed there? > > firmware-linux-free > > firmware-zd1211 > > intel-microcode > > ixp4xx-microcode > > prism2-usb-firmware-installer > > > > (firmware-linux-free might be special because in main; not sure.) > > That means it's built from a separate source package which I haven't > yet added DEP-11 generation to. But it's also recommended by linux- > image-* so gets installed by default anyway. Well, as far as I can tell from a debian-installer build, this package isn't used at build-time. That it gets installed by default is one thing; but as I mentioned in my initial reply, we might need to load firmware(s) within the installer context, sometimes before having network set up, or the /target filesystem, etc. (I have no idea whether that is relevant for any of the firmwares included in this particular package.) Also: Thanks for your feedback. KiBi.
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