Package: atmel-firmware Version: 1.3-3 Severity: normal Tags: d-i d-i's support for installing firmware packages fails if those packages depend on packages not in base (see #492205). atmel-firmware has two dependencies, both of which seem spurious:
- It depends on perl, only because of atmel_fwl, but atmel_fwl is not used in normal operation. Also, atmel_fwl seems to work fine with perl-base; it does not need the full perl package. - It depends on udev | hotplug. This was added because it used to depend on just hotplug. But in fact the package can be used without either, nothing is stopping someone from loading the fimware manually. And these dependencies do it no good since udev will be installed anyway, eventually. Observe that only two firmware packages in the archive depend on udev (and I'm filing a bug on zd1211-firmware too ..) Please remove these dependencies. We will probably have to drop atmel-firmware from the images at http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware/ if this is not fixed, unless we can somehow work around the issues in d-i. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages atmel-firmware depends on: ii perl 5.10.0-11.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii udev 0.124-5 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo atmel-firmware recommends no packages. Versions of packages atmel-firmware suggests: ii wireless-tools 29-1 Tools for manipulating Linux Wirel -- no debconf information -- see shy jo
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