[Pkg-raspi-maintainers] Bug#887062: Bug#887062: raspi3-firmware: postinst fails, makes bad assumption about existence of /boot/firmware/

[Raphael Hertzog]

Hello Michael,

On Thu, 18 Jan 2018, Michael Stapelberg wrote:
> Given that the package’s only purpose is to populate /boot/firmware, may I
> ask why it’s being installed in your builds at all? I’d like to understand
> the use-case before adding code to deal with it.

The package name contains "firmware" so it's automatically installed by
live-build in the chroot. This is an hardware-enablement feature of
live-build.

See "--firmware-chroot true" in:
https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/live-build/lb_config.1.html

And in general, even if only for automated testing purposes, packages
should be installable without any special pre-requisites.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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