Bug#677253: please make firmware package versioned for co-installability

2012-06-12 Thread Daniel Baumann
Package: firmware-nonfree Severity: wishlist most firmware works with a certain range of kernel versions. if that range is not big enough to include stable and testing, then, once one is using backports, one can no longer reasonably use the older kernel. practical example: on a squeeze system

Bug#677253: please make firmware package versioned for co-installability

2012-06-12 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 18:15:26 +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: Package: firmware-nonfree Severity: wishlist most firmware works with a certain range of kernel versions. if that range is not big enough to include stable and testing, then, once one is using backports, one can no longer