On Sat 20 Jul 2024 at 12:13:28 (+1200), Ash Joubert wrote: > On 2024-07-20 03:39, Celejar wrote: > > Thanks much! > [...] > > As per another message in this thread, I've already filed a bug against > > linux-image-6.9.9-amd64, but I suppose I should update the report with > > this information, indicating that it's not really a problem with that > > package. > > You are welcome! Please close your kernel bug report. > > Hard to pin this on the firmware package either as the recommends is > arguably the right behaviour to prevent missing firmware at boot time, > but the recommends has this surprising side-effect for those with a > /boot partition with insufficient free space for such a large firmware > package. It is not dangerous because the old initrd is not removed > until the new one is written successfully, but it is annoying!
According to Debian policy: "The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together with this one in all but unusual installations." ----------------------------- So if my old Broadcom ethernet card requires firmware-misc-nonfree (the package for "firmware blobs which are not individually large enough to warrant a standalone package"), it would be /unusual/ for the installation not to need some Nvidia firmware as well? That doesn't seem to make any sense. Suggests might be a better relationship, but even that seems a stretch to me. "Suggests […] is used to declare that one package may be more useful with one or more others. Using this field tells the packaging system and the user that the listed packages are related to this one and can perhaps enhance its usefulness, but that installing this one without them is perfectly reasonable." Cheers, David.
