Bug#677253: please make firmware package versioned for co-installability
Package: firmware-nonfree
Severity: wishlist
most firmware works with a certain range of kernel versions. if that
range is not big enough to include stable and testing, then, once one is
using backports, one can no longer reasonably use the older kernel.
practical example: on a squeeze system that needs bnx2 firmware, once
you installed the backported kernel and firmware, the system will not
have network anymore with the squeeze kernel (albeit both kernel
packages can be properly co-installed).
therefore, please make the firmware packages versioned
(firmware-bnx2-3.2 or so).
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