Thanks for the hint, I did not realize that Ubuntu’s linux-firmware-* hierarchy is actually firmware-* on Debian.
What’s the best way to rename this package, given that it already sits in the NEW queue? Do I need to talk to an ftp-master to remove it from there and then do another upload? On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 1:34 AM, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 2016-11-23 at 22:37 +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Michael Stapelberg <stapelb...@debian.org> > > > > * Package name : linux-firmware-raspi3 > > Is this really Linux-specific? If not, please consider dropping the > 'linux-' part. > > Ben. > > > Version : 1.20161123 > > Upstream Author : Raspberry Pi Foundation > > * URL : https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware > > * License : Proprietary > > Description : Raspberry Pi 3 GPU firmware and bootloaders > > > > This package contains all the proprietary files necessary to boot a > > Raspberry Pi 3 board. > > . > > Raspberry Pi is a trademark of the Raspberry Pi Foundation. > > > > This package will be maintained by the newly created pkg-raspi team, and > > is one of the last few pieces of the puzzle to create Debian images for > > the Raspberry Pi 3. The package is based on the linux-firmware-raspi2 > > package from Ubuntu. > > > -- > Ben Hutchings > [W]e found...that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had > thought. > ... I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to > be spent > in finding mistakes in my own programs. - Maurice Wilkes, 1949 > > -- Best regards, Michael
