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Bug#698187: unblock: firmware-free/3.2



On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 23:11:35 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:

> Please unblock package firmware-free
> 
> This adds free firmware for the Atheros AR9170 USB wifi chip, for use
> with the carl9170 driver.  This chip was previously supported by
> ar9170usb and non-free firmware.  The driver is no longer built.  So
> this adds new hardware support for Debian proper and fixes a
> regression in Debian+non-free.
> 
> The source code for this firmware and the attached debdiff are quite
> large.  However, it is completely independent of the existing blobs -
> and we don't rebuild them as part of the package build, anyway.
> 
> unblock firmware-free/3.2
> 
Unfortunately the diff was too big to make it to the debian-release
list...  Anyway, unblocked now.

Cheers,
Julien

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