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Bug#707311: initramfs-tools: nags about missing firmware that is not needed



Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.112
Severity: wishlist

On my server, I have an r8169 card which is functional without firmware.
Since the firmware is not needed (and non-free), I have chosen not to
install it.  However, update-initramfs consistently informs me that the
firmware is missing.  It would be nice to have a documented option that
tells initramfs-tools that I know the firmware is missing and just don't
care.  Please consider adding one.

I have removed the system information because I am not sending this from
the affected machine.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.8-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/mksh-static

Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on:
ii  cpio               2.11+dfsg-0.1
ii  klibc-utils        2.0.1-3.1
ii  kmod               9-3
ii  module-init-tools  9-3
ii  udev               175-7.2

Versions of packages initramfs-tools recommends:
ii  busybox  1:1.20.0-8

Versions of packages initramfs-tools suggests:
ii  bash-completion  1:2.0-1

-- no debconf information

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