Package: firmware-b43-installer Version: 1:019-13 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 4.9
Dear Maintainer, When attempting to install the package `firmware-b43-installer` on Debian 13 "Trixie" (testing), the installation fails due to a checksum mismatch of the downloaded Broadcom firmware: broadcom-wl-6.30.163.46.tar.bz2: checksum mismatch sha512sum: WARNING: 1 computed checksum did NOT match firmware-b43-installer.postinst: Downloaded firmware did not match known SHA512 checksum, aborting. dpkg: error processing package firmware-b43-installer (--configure) This happens because the URL used to fetch the firmware redirects to a suspended hosting page (`cgi-sys/suspendedpage.cgi`), meaning the downloaded content is not valid, resulting in a broken installation. Steps to reproduce (on Debian Trixie): 1. `sudo apt install firmware-b43-installer` 2. Observe download and checksum failure. 3. Package fails to configure; Wi-Fi support is broken. Expected result: - The installer should download a valid firmware file or handle the missing source gracefully. - Systems relying on Broadcom Wi-Fi should not be left without a working driver. This violates Debian Policy ยง4.9: maintainer scripts should be robust and not fail in this way. Thank you for your work maintaining Debian packages. Best regards, catmaster (Reporting from Debian Bookworm, but the issue occurs on Trixie) -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.11 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-37-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=es_CO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_CO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages firmware-b43-installer depends on: ii b43-fwcutter 1:019-8 ii bzip2 1.0.8-5+b1 ii ca-certificates 20230311 ii pciutils 1:3.9.0-4 ii wget 1.21.3-1+deb12u1 firmware-b43-installer recommends no packages. firmware-b43-installer suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
