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Bug#1118195: firmware-misc-nonfree: no longer actually ships Arm Mali firmware, only link to non-existing file



Control: severity -1 serious
Control: forcemerge -1 1118261

Quoting Diederik de Haas (2025-10-18 11:12:05)
> Thanks for that :-)
> Because of that I realized my glob pattern was wrong. So I found which
> pattern I should use and with that, all Arm Mali firmware was packaged.
>
> I've attached the patch and submitted it as MR here:
> https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/firmware-nonfree/-/merge_requests/132

Perfect, thank you!

I can now also confirm that the boot failures I reported in #1118261 are due to
the mali firmware which was not getting shipped. I am thus raising the severity
of this bug to RC and merge the other one into this one.

Until this fix gets uploaded we are shipping a hotfix in our own repositories:
https://source.mnt.re/reform/reform-debian-packages/-/commit/                  0947565403d2acd607eade57692bf4916a493c2b

Do you know of a mechanism which would allow to find broken symlinks in the
firmware-nonfree packages automatically in the future and abort the build if
found? Lintian does not show broken symlinks because it cannot know whether the
files maybe come from another package. Should the script generating the install
files gain this feature or maybe a script can be added that is run after
dh_installdeb which analyzes the generated binary packages? This problem was
very frustrating for users on Debian unstable on the affected platforms as
without being able to login, recovery is hard for users who are not very
tech-savvy. And it also took me 3 hours before I found out that it was the
changes firmware-misc-nonfree which resulted in gdm not showing up. I had
suspected some changes in gnome, gtk, gsettings or whatnot but not this
package. :D

Thanks!

cheers, josch

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