Populating non-free firmware?
Hi Debianites
Earlier this year, we had a [vote] where we concluded that we'd include
non-free firmware in the upcoming Debian 12 release. Steve posted a
summary of [next steps] to this list, but it seems like we have some
steps missing.
The non-free-firmware [component] has been created, but so far it only
contains the rasbpi-firmware package.
I recall seeing various discussions about /what/ should be included in
non-free-firmware (packages that install files under /lib/firmware seems
like a reasonable approach), but it's unclear how that's going to happen.
Will the archive team be moving those over? Is it up to firmware
packagers to re-upload it to the correct component?
As far as I recall, there was also some discussion between archive
admins on whether non-free-firmware should contain copies of packages,
or whether the packages should be moved (along with migration concerns
for the latter).
Since we're so close to freeze, and since there are lots of bits that
will be depending on this if we are to implement this for Debian 12, can
we have some basic plan and communication put together for this so that
everyone knows what to expect?
Thanks to everyone involved in this and putting in the work to make it
happen!
-Jonathan
[vote] https://www.debian.org/vote/2022/vote_003
[next steps]
https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20221002142736.GA1700088@tack.einval.com
[component] http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/non-free-firmware/
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