[Pkg-raspi-maintainers] Bug#1107602: Bug#1107602: may we have an experimental upload please?

[Gunnar Wolf]

Marc Haber dijo [Sat, Aug 02, 2025 at 02:41:27PM +0200]:
>I can confirm that my last two Raspberry Pi SD cards that I still have 
>can boot just fine with the firmware from experimental. No strange 
>error messages in debug output.
>
>I apologize for not being able to give a better answer since I have 
>converted most of my raspis to USB boot in the mean time, and I 
>haven't written down which SD cards were the ones that the old 
>firmware didn't like. And, I probably had the same firmware version 
>already installed before.

Thanks! This is much better confirmation (and testing) than what I did as
the package maintainer. I dared upload untested firmware to Experimental
because, well, it is Experimental after all... but I would not like pushing
this package without your confirmation to Unstable. Now (modulo eight more
days), I'll be happy to rebuild+upload!

>I can confirm that updating a Debian unstable from april to today's 
>sid did break booting, but that might also have been u-boot and grub 
>related. But also during that unstable upgrade, the raspi-firmware 
>package from unstable got installed which probably overwrote the 
>firmware with the 2024 version. I just upgraded the firmware manually 
>again to make the system boot again.

Ugh. But then again, I'm very happy this update does fix it.

>Too bad that we're going to releas trixie with the old firmware now. 
>But that's something that we can't change. Thank you for caring abot 
>the Raspberry Pi,

As Holger answered, once the package lands in Forky (Testing), I will
upload it as well to s-p-u.

Thanks for your report and for your follow-up!

>and I apologize for not talking to you more on Debconf. It was a busy
>conference for both of us, I think.

Of course. I was happy to see you. Having my family with me, and being in
the off-site accomodation, I missed out on all of the after-dinner social
interactions. But that is DebConf, after all -- Talked with many people,
advanced on many technical fronts, did a lot of things, but there is always
_SO MUCH_ we cannot do... ☺

Hope to see you next year!