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Re: firmware-nonfree update

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On Fri, 2019-03-01 at 14:05 +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> I have prepared an update for CVE-2018-5383/firmware-nonfree by backporting the
> fixed firmware from the upstream repo that I could find. See my two commits in:
> 
> https://salsa.debian.org/pochu/firmware-nonfree/commits/jessie-security
> 
> I built the packages and compared one of the non-affected packages (qlogic) and
> only the changelog has changed. Comparing atheros, the two drivers are updated,
> and for intel some of the files are updated. However I see that for intel there
> are some drivers that we don't ship in that version of firmware-nonfree, e.g.
> ibt-{17,18}-*. For those, I wonder if we should update and ship them. If there's
> any user with that hardware, they would need a firmware update I suppose.

firmware-nonfree is meant to support the kernel version(s) shipped in
the same suite, in the previous release, or in intermediate versions. 
So for jessie that's 3.2-4.9 inclusive.  If one of those kernel
versions may request the added files then they should be packaged. 
Otherwise it's not necessary - users installing a newer kernel package
from another suite can get the firmware packages from there too.

> (It
> may be unlikely for old suites to have users with new hardware, however it's
> possible and users that don't have it will be unaffected by the new firmware, so
> it wouldn't hurt to ship it.)
> 
> My branch is for jessie but I can prepare it for stretch too if you think that's
> worth it.

The current jessie-security version of firmware-nonfree is really a
backport from stretch.  So I would prefer it if you update the stretch
branch first and then merge that to jessie-security.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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