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Bug#1057786: firmware-misc-nonfree: Split firmware firmware-misc-nonfree based on architecture

From Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject Bug#1057786: firmware-misc-nonfree: Split firmware firmware-misc-nonfree based on architecture
Date 2023-12-08 16:40 +0100
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On Friday, 8 December 2023 14:51:52 CET David Heidelberg wrote:
> would be lovely to have a firmware-misc-nonfree based on architecture.
> Multiple of these firmwares are bound to arm64, x86_64 or other archs.
> 
> Installing them for example in the CI for x86_64 leads to needing using:
> 
> dpkg -L firmware-misc-nonfree | grep -v "i915" | xargs rm # drop extra 50M

I have no opinion on whether splitting based on architecture is a good idea, 
but I did notice there were quite a number of f.e. nvidia firmware files in 
firmware-misc-nonfree which could be split into their own package?
I haven't checked, but the same may be true for others like intel or mediatek.

From firmware-misc-nonfree Description:
"This is a collection of firmware blobs which are not individually large enough 
to warrant a standalone package."

It seems some *do* warrant a standalone package.

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Bug#1057786: firmware-misc-nonfree: Split firmware firmware-misc-nonfree based on architecture David Heidelberg <david@ixit.cz> - 2023-12-08 15:10 +0100
  Bug#1057786: firmware-misc-nonfree: Split firmware firmware-misc-nonfree based on architecture Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2023-12-08 16:40 +0100
  Bug#1057786: marked as done (firmware-misc-nonfree: Split  firmware firmware-misc-nonfree based on architecture) "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2024-06-18 21:10 +0200

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