Package: www.debian.org Severity: important Hi,
This was mentioned a few days ago on debian-project@ by Gunnar: https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2023/01/msg00018.html but much work has happened since then, with debian-installer components having been extended to leverage this new component. The next release of the installer should happen within the next two weeks. I'm also trying to get documentation ready, and you can read more about it in two merge requests (freshly opened, not reviewed yet): - https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/installation-guide/-/merge_requests/23 - https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/138 Unless you fancy reviewing what changed in the installer, I'd skip the former and concentrate on the latter, which briefly explains why non-free-firmware was added. It's available for bookworm suites and above (might be for other suites, but I don't expect packages to show there). TL;DR: - bullseye systems are likely to have a sources.list configured this way: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free - bullseye systems getting upgraded to bookworm should be modified with the following configuration (to make sure non-free firmware packages that might be installed have a chance to get upgraded): deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware - new bookworm systems are likely to be configured with either of these (unless one picks an expert install, enabling contrib and/or non-free explicitly): deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main non-free-firmware There's also some related ongoing work, about adding some hints in apt (linking back to the release notes), and about fixing command-not-found in bullseye: - https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/-/merge_requests/282 - https://bugs.debian.org/1029803 Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
