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Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged 'lenny-ignore'?



Hi

Dne Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:25:59 +0200
Vincent Danjean <vdanjean.ml@free.fr> napsal(a):

> Looking at your packages, I've a question. I see one package per firmware
> without version number in the package name.
>   Do you think about a way to have different kernels that each requires
> different firmware versions (for the same hardware) ?
> It seems to me that this problem is not addressed by current firmware-*
> package (packages already in Debian and your new ones), unless it is
> expected that firmware packages will change their name. However, I think
> this is a problem we must take into account for long term support.

At least ipw2100 drivers changed firmware name if they required
different version, so I guess this is also used by others...

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