Thanks Cyril for creating this bug and all the work you're doing related to implement the decisions of the general resolution about non-free-firmware.

I have created 2 branches in the webwml repo:

1.- branch GR-non-free-firmware
Where I plan to work on reflecting the changes that we should do in the website on this topic

2.- branch bookworm
to prepare the changes for the website related to bookworm release that at not related with non-free-firmware (e.g. website banner, the usual changes we do for releases [1], etc)

Both of them are empty for now, but I plan to put some work in the following days, and encourage everybody to help too.

[1] I think it's not well documented but I usually use these 2 wiki page as reference:
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Publicity/ReleasePointAnnouncements
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/ReleaseCheckList/BookwormCheckList

Kind regards,

--
Laura Arjona Reina
https://wiki.debian.org/LauraArjona

El 30/1/23 a las 7:21, Cyril Brulebois escribió:
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,

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