[Pkg-raspi-maintainers] Bug#1049902: bookworm-pu: package raspi-firmware/20220830+ds-1+deb12u1

[Cyril Brulebois]

Hi Gunnar,

Gunnar Wolf <gwolf at debian.org> (2023-08-16):
> [ Risks ]
> The code is very simple.

Cassandra being my middle name, I'd advocate for more caution: The code
change is relatively simple, but raspi-firmware hooks are not trivial…

> The only risk I can think of is that the bug might still impact users
> of non-Raspberry ARM systems. However, the likelihood of having it
> installed is minor (due to the available hardware being different).

Live images as of 12.0.0 installed all firmware packages, including that
one, so that likelihood is *definitely not minor*.

> [ Changes ]
> Postinst will now check whether the architecture is ARM*, and exit
> otherwise without doing the firmware install dance.
> 
> [ Other info ]
> A more proper fix would be to create a separate package with the wireless
> Broadcom firmware. I have requested for the kernel team (maintainers of
> firmware-brcm80211) to do so, but have got no positive response.

I'd call that an orthogonal topic.


In the extra checks department, I'd suggest making sure that once
raspi-firmware is installed on say an amd64 machine, upgrading it to the
proposed version makes it possible to upgrade a kernel (which has been
the major pain point up to now) and also to… remove raspi-firmware.

As far as I can remember from user horror stories, they couldn't even
remove the package, and had to manually remove hooks under /etc before
being able to finally remove the package. Pinch of salt, don't trust my
memory.


Cheers,
-- 
Cyril Brulebois -- Debian Consultant @ DEBAMAX -- https://debamax.com/
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