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Populating non-free firmware?

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Hi Debianites

Earlier this year, we had a [vote] where we concluded that we'd include 
non-free firmware in the upcoming Debian 12 release. Steve posted a 
summary of [next steps] to this list, but it seems like we have some 
steps missing.

The non-free-firmware [component] has been created, but so far it only 
contains the rasbpi-firmware package.

I recall seeing various discussions about /what/ should be included in 
non-free-firmware (packages that install files under /lib/firmware seems 
like a reasonable approach), but it's unclear how that's going to happen.

Will the archive team be moving those over? Is it up to firmware 
packagers to re-upload it to the correct component?

As far as I recall, there was also some discussion between archive 
admins on whether non-free-firmware should contain copies of packages, 
or whether the packages should be moved (along with migration concerns 
for the latter).

Since we're so close to freeze, and since there are lots of bits that 
will be depending on this if we are to implement this for Debian 12, can 
we have some basic plan and communication put together for this so that 
everyone knows what to expect?

Thanks to everyone involved in this and putting in the work to make it 
happen!

-Jonathan

[vote] https://www.debian.org/vote/2022/vote_003

[next steps] 
https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20221002142736.GA1700088@tack.einval.com

[component] http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/non-free-firmware/

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Populating non-free firmware? Jonathan Carter <jcc@debian.org> - 2022-12-24 10:50 +0100
  Re: Populating non-free firmware? "M. Zhou" <lumin@debian.org> - 2022-12-24 18:20 +0100
    Re: Populating non-free firmware? Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com> - 2022-12-24 21:30 +0100
      Re: Populating non-free firmware? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-12-25 00:40 +0100
        Re: Populating non-free firmware? Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org> - 2022-12-25 10:20 +0100
  Re: Populating non-free firmware? Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2022-12-25 12:50 +0100
    Re: Populating non-free firmware? Jonathan Carter <jcc@debian.org> - 2022-12-25 19:30 +0100
      Re: Populating non-free firmware? "Henrique de Moraes Holschuh" <hmh@debian.org> - 2022-12-31 22:50 +0100

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