Glenn Maynard wrote:
icq-client does require access to a server to be useful, but there's no expectation that that server be installable by the machine running the client; the lack of an icq-server package is not a "piece missing" from the client.
So, then, a solution would be:
a) Set up a userspace firmware loader which can download
firmware via HTTP.
b) Set up a firmware web server.
c) Drivers which use the userspace loader can now go in main.
Personally, I'd suggest 'non-free.debian.org' would be a good HTTP
server for this, and that the programs 'apt-get' and 'dpkg-deb' would
form 90% of this new network module for the firmware loader.
(tongue-in-cheek)