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| 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 |
| Message-ID | <HIL7j-cbZi-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <HIJId-cbh7-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <HIJId-cbh7-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | Connecting Knowledge |
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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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