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Bug#729325: marked as done (debian-policy: [FHS] /usr/local/lib/firmware not a good directory for hardware plugged in at sytsm boot)

Your message dated Sat, 31 Dec 2016 18:26:52 -0800
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and subject line Re: Bug#729325: Debian Wiki: Re: Bug#729325: debian-policy: [FHS] /usr/local/lib/firmware not a good directory for hardware plugged in at sytsm boot
has caused the Debian Bug report #729325,
regarding debian-policy: [FHS] /usr/local/lib/firmware not a good directory for hardware plugged in at sytsm boot
to be marked as done.

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Package: debian-policy
Severity: normal

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Dear Maintainer,


https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware recommends to place manually installed firware to 
/usr/local/lib/firmware.

If the hardware is plugged in during boot, the firware cannot be loaded by udev because it 
tries to load the firware before /usr is mounted. 

It does not try a second time. 

See bug #729252 (duplicate?). 


Thanky,


Sebastian 



- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/3 CPU cores)
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Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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Control: tags -1 wontfix

Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> writes:

> It is not unreasonnable per se to document locations where user firmware
> will be searched by packaged softwares, but this is moot now that the
> path for manually-installed firmware and package-provided firmware is
> identical:  documenting the search path for package-provided firmware is
> useful for interoperability between kernel and firmware-providing
> package.

> At the very least, the change need to be more publicized to avoid
> systems to fail to boot due to misplaced firmware after an upgrade.

Thanks for the additional background.  This seems to be outside the scope
of Policy and more of a question for installation documentation,
documentation of the firmware system, or private agreement between
firmware maintainers and kernel maintainers.

I'm closing out the Policy bug accordingly.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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