[Pkg-raspi-maintainers] Bug#1023741: raspi-firmware: Please transfer brcmfmac43456-sdio.* files to firmware-brcm80211 package

[Diederik de Haas]

Package: raspi-firmware
Version: 1.20220830+ds-1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: 999485 at bugs.debian.org

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In https://bugs.debian.org/999485#10 you (Gunnar Wolf) wrote:

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Please note I'm currenlty shipping the required files in
raspi-firmware -- I believe their right place is in
firmware-brcm80211, so please just ping me (or better, raise a bug on
raspi-firmware) whent they are added to this package.
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I completely agree that firmware-brcm80211 is the right place and
raspi-firmware is the wrong place as this is about firmware for wifi
devices which are f.e. also used on Pine64 devices.

It doesn't make sense to install the raspi-firmware on those non-RPi
devices and AFAIK the package also makes assumptions about being run
*on* a RPi (with a /boot/firmware dir?), so it may even fail
installation on non-RPi devices.

So hereby the request to do and coordinate the move of those firmware
files to the firmware-brcm80211 package, which likely will need to be
coordinated with a Breaks/Replace construct.

It would be great if it could be done ASAP, but at least before the
Bookworm release.

TIA,
  Diederik

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.0.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages raspi-firmware depends on:
ii  dosfstools  4.2-1
ii  dpkg        1.21.9+b1

raspi-firmware recommends no packages.

Versions of packages raspi-firmware suggests:
ii  bluez-firmware         1.2-7
pn  firmware-brcm80211     <none>
ii  firmware-misc-nonfree  20221012-1

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