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Re: Remove fwupdate from the archive



On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 05:33:15PM +0000, Mario.Limonciello@dell.com wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I wanted to request fwupdate and the various signed packages produced
>by it to be removed from the Debian archive.  The functionality has
>been merged into the fwupd package and now from an upstream
>perspective fwupdate is abandoned and won't receive any more
>updates. For example it no longer compiles against GCC9 and there is
>no desire upstream to fix this.

Nod. I was planning to talk to you about this already. We should plan
it properly, add transitional packages etc., though.

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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