Bug#612349: release-notes: the upgrades section does not mention firmware woes

2011-02-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Henrique de Moraes Holschuh (h...@debian.org): The release nodes neglect to recommend that the user should make sure the firmware packages are installed. In fact, unless we add a list of the hardware that requires non-free firmware, the

Bug#612349: release-notes: the upgrades section does not mention firmware woes

2011-02-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Package: release-notes Severity: important There is at least one report of an user who lost network connectivity during the upgrade, because the firmware for his NIC (e100) was not available anymore. The release nodes neglect to recommend that the user should make sure the firmware packages are

Bug#612349: release-notes: the upgrades section does not mention firmware woes

2011-02-07 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Henrique de Moraes Holschuh (h...@debian.org): The release nodes neglect to recommend that the user should make sure the firmware packages are installed. In fact, unless we add a list of the hardware that requires non-free firmware, the release notes would actually have to recommend