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transitional packages? (was: Firmware GR result - what happens next?)



El 02/10/22 a las 20:42, Michael Biebl escribió:
> 
> Am 02.10.22 um 20:14 schrieb Luca Boccassi:
> > On Sun, 2022-10-02 at 10:52 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 
> > > will
> > > be very obvious.  But if you currently have non-free configured but
> > > don't
> > > add the new firmware section, everything will appear to work but you
> > > won't
> > > get new firmware, so the problem may go unnoticed.
> > 
> > In Bullseye we changed the name/syntax for the security repository, and
> > for that a mention in the release notes was enough, no? Isn't this a
> > very similar situation?
> 
> The main difference is, that the renaming caused an error message by apt, so
> you knew something needed to be fixed.
> 
> For this particular change, there will be no error. So yes, I have the same
> fear as Russ that this particular change might go unnoticed.
> 

Couldn't we handle this via transitional firware* non-free packages,
that depend on bookworm non-free-firmware packages?

Cheers,

 -- Santiago

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