On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 11:15 -0800, Mike Castle wrote: > Package: linux-2.6 > Version: 2.6.32-5 > Severity: minor > > > During the upgrade process, apt-get causes a message to display that starts with this text: > > │ Required firmware files may be missing │ > │ │ > │ This system is currently running Linux 2.6.30-2-686 and you are │ > │ installing Linux 2.6.32-trunk-486. In the new version some of the │ > │ drivers used on this system may require additional firmware files: │ > > > While scrolling down, I noticed the following: > │ radeon/RV630_me.bin, radeon/RV630_pfp.bin, radeon/RV610_me.bin, │ > │ radeon/RV610_pfp.bin, radeon/R600_me.bin, radeon/R600_pfp.bin\nr8169: │ > │ rtl8168d-2.fw, rtl8168d-1.fw │ > > > I don't think that \n is supposed to be there. The "\n" should be converted into a line-break by debconf, and I thought I saw this working when I added the code that generates such messages. However, it looks like I need to do a little more to enable that. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Any smoothly functioning technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
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