Source: firmware-nonfree Version: 20210315-2 Severity: serious Tags: pending X-Debbugs-Cc: k...@debian.org, debian-b...@lists.debian.org
The binary firmware packages built from firmware-nonfree currently include metanfo.xml files with a list of filenames of the firmware in them. These files are indexed and allows firmware packages to be identified and installed based on the files requested. However, during system installation not all kernel drivers are installed and it is not known which files will be requested by the full system. The metainfo.xml files should include a list of Linux modalias strings for the related modules, so that it's possible to identify (possibly) needed firmware packages without the drivers loaded. Ben. -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.0 APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled
