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Bug#793874: rtl8192sfw.bin: no upstream in copyright file



On Tue, 2015-07-28 at 13:18 +0200, Piotr Engelking wrote:
> Package: firmware-realtek
> Version: 0.44
> Severity: serious
> Justification: 12.5, stretch release policy 1
> 
> The RTL8192SU/rtl8192sfw.bin file is not present upstream. Its actual
> upstream source (presumably Realtek?) is not documented in the
> copyright file. Please document it.
> 
> $ cd git/linux-firmware
> $ git cat-file -t $(git hash-object 
> /lib/firmware/RTL8192SU/rtl8192sfw.bin)
> fatal: git cat-file 41d6836ecabadef3593eef5f58ca76f533cc5820: bad 
> file
> $

I'll remove it.  The driver that used to require (r8192s_usb) was
replaced in Linux 2.6.37 and the new driver (r8712u) loads firmware
from a different file.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Hoare's Law of Large Problems:
        Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out.

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