Bug#1109025: firmware-b43-installer: firmware download fails due to broken upstream URL and checksum mismatch

[John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org>]

On 14/07/2025 14:50, Mathias Gibbens wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2025 11:28:38 +0900 John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> wrote:
> > This bug report has been tagged "patch" but there seems to be no patch available.
>
>    I tagged with patch because I think the fix is just a one line change
> in the postinst script:
>
> > diff --git a/debian/firmware-b43-installer.postinst b/debian/firmware-b43-installer.postinst
> > index f287e3e..6de631c 100644
> > --- a/debian/firmware-b43-installer.postinst
> > +++ b/debian/firmware-b43-installer.postinst
> > @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ fi
> >   
> >   DOWNLOAD="${BROADCOM_WL}.tar.bz2"
> >   
> > -URL="https://www.lwfinger.com/b43-firmware/${DOWNLOAD}";
> > +URL="https://github.com/minios-linux/b43-firmware/releases/download/b43-firmware/${DOWNLOAD}";
> >   
> >   FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/usr/lib/firmware"
>
>    There's concern about hosting of the firmware files, but that problem
> pre-dates this issue where the website referenced by the script has
> disappeared.
>
>    I guess I'll go ahead and prepare an unblock pre-approval request; if
> the RT approves I'll then do a QA upload of this package.
>
> Mathias

There still seem to be machines in active use that need that firmware, so an upgrade would be welcome.
Ofc the firmware itself is in a grey area, but I don't know of any other way to get it.

--
John