Interesting that it takes more than a year to get from completed firmware tarball to Debian package
The 2021-08-18 firmware tag was packaged by Debian on 2021-08-24: https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/ … _changelog
It is important to remember that Debian & Devuan are free operating systems. As such, the contrib & non-free repository components are not considered to be part of the official release and any packages from there are supplied purely as a convenience to users on a best effort basis.
The non-free firmware packages have been lagging behind for a while now, even in sid. They should catch up for the bookworm release though. Hopefully.
]]>The date given for the firmware packages reflects the time of the upstream git tag from which the package is built.
Thanks for that. Interesting that it takes more than a year to get from completed firmware tarball to Debian package, even for a backport.
Just checked again, and there it is:
Package: firmware-iwlwifi
Version: 20210818-1~bpo11+1
At least I've learned something from jumping the gun!
]]>Thanks for teaching me something about the repos! And thanks for the hard work; it's a great distro.
]]>I wouldn't expect more than a week in lag since that's the period for amprolla's full merge.
]]>The only the thing I'm still confused about is the length of the lag. The versions of the two backported packages I mentioned are listed by Debian as 20210818-1~bpo11+1, which appears to be over a year ago. Would packages this age not normally have merged by now?
]]>I cannot however seem to locate the equivalent packages for firmware-linux-nonfree and firmware-iwlwifi (what I'm really interested in) in chimaera-backports/non-free, even though they're clearly available in bullseye-backports/non-free.
We appear to be stuck with the older chimaera/non-free versions. Any ideas why they aren't available in chimaera-backports?
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