Package: hw-detect Severity: normal It's too easy to miss a sentence on the web page, and think that firmware.tar.gz can just be copied to a usb stick w/o being extacted like the iso is. This happened to me. :)
So I think I will make hw-detect fall back to looking for firmware.tar.gz it firmware.tgz and extract it to a temp directory in order to access the debs inside. The temp directory can be removed at the end to save memory. d-i can't extract the firmware.zip. So maybe we should get rid of it? Though that would mean that Windows/DOS users would be more likely to copy in unextracted tar.gz, which would make d-i use a bit more memory briefly for the abovementioned temp dir. OTOH, most systems with Windows have *more* than enough memory. If this is done, we should probably rename firmware.tar.gz to firmware.tgz in order for it to be more DOS-friendly. -- see shy jo
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