Re: Can 'testing' firmware-nonfree packages be added to bullseye-backports repo?
Then that is what I will do, thank you!
On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 1:41 PM Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, 20 April 2022 16:05:24 CEST Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> > If it's not possible for the firmware packages to be included in the
> > backports repo then I can configure my system to grab them from
> > 'testing', although at that point there may not be any value in using
> > the kernel packages from the backports repo... could just using the
> > 'testing' kernel packages too.
>
> The kernel from Testing could transitively pull in other packages from Testing
> which may result in the best course of action being upgrading entirely to
> Testing, which I guess is not what you want.
> I'm quite sure that problem will not happen with firmware packages from
> Testing. I can understand it's more convenient to have firmware packages in
> backports too, but it should be quite safe to grab just *firmware* packages
> from Testing.
>
> HTH
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