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Bug#1109025: marked as done (firmware-b43-installer: firmware download fails due to broken upstream URL and checksum mismatch)



Your message dated Thu, 17 Jul 2025 07:18:55 +0000
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and subject line Bug#1109025: fixed in b43-fwcutter 1:019-14
has caused the Debian Bug report #1109025,
regarding firmware-b43-installer: firmware download fails due to broken upstream URL and checksum mismatch
to be marked as done.

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Package: firmware-b43-installer
Version: 1:019-13
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 4.9

Dear Maintainer,

When attempting to install the package `firmware-b43-installer` on Debian 13
"Trixie" (testing), the installation fails due to a checksum mismatch of the
downloaded Broadcom firmware:

broadcom-wl-6.30.163.46.tar.bz2: checksum mismatch
sha512sum: WARNING: 1 computed checksum did NOT match
firmware-b43-installer.postinst: Downloaded firmware did not match known SHA512
checksum, aborting.
dpkg: error processing package firmware-b43-installer (--configure)

This happens because the URL used to fetch the firmware redirects to a
suspended hosting page (`cgi-sys/suspendedpage.cgi`), meaning the downloaded
content is not valid, resulting in a broken installation.

Steps to reproduce (on Debian Trixie):
1. `sudo apt install firmware-b43-installer`
2. Observe download and checksum failure.
3. Package fails to configure; Wi-Fi support is broken.

Expected result:
- The installer should download a valid firmware file or handle the missing
source gracefully.
- Systems relying on Broadcom Wi-Fi should not be left without a working
driver.

This violates Debian Policy §4.9: maintainer scripts should be robust and not
fail in this way.

Thank you for your work maintaining Debian packages.

Best regards,
catmaster
(Reporting from Debian Bookworm, but the issue occurs on Trixie)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.11
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-37-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=es_CO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_CO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages firmware-b43-installer depends on:
ii  b43-fwcutter     1:019-8
ii  bzip2            1.0.8-5+b1
ii  ca-certificates  20230311
ii  pciutils         1:3.9.0-4
ii  wget             1.21.3-1+deb12u1

firmware-b43-installer recommends no packages.

firmware-b43-installer suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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--- Begin Message ---
Source: b43-fwcutter
Source-Version: 1:019-14
Done: Mathias Gibbens <gibmat@debian.org>

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
b43-fwcutter, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1109025@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Mathias Gibbens <gibmat@debian.org> (supplier of updated b43-fwcutter package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)


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Format: 1.8
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2025 05:52:41 +0000
Source: b43-fwcutter
Architecture: source
Version: 1:019-14
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>
Changed-By: Mathias Gibbens <gibmat@debian.org>
Closes: 1109025
Changes:
 b43-fwcutter (1:019-14) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * QA upload.
   * Update remote site where firmware can be fetched (Closes: #1109025)
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