On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
>  > I'm not sure about Robert, but I personally use this USB dongle in a
>  > variety of sub-compact computer products with very low disk space and
>  > would rather avoid seeing this merged into some huge metafirmware
>  > package. Instead, firmware-nonfree should be made to Depends upon this
>  > package.
>
>  I'm sorry, but you have misinterpreted firmware-nonfree. The source
>  package is firmware-nonfree, but each firmware has it's own
>  firmware-$foo binary packages.

It seems that I indeed have. The packaging seems to make a lot of
sense. The only drawback I can see is how to keep track of upstream
version versus Debian package version. Having separate source packages
makes it easy, because the binary target also reflects the upstream
version number.

-- 
Martin-Éric Racine
http://q-funk.iki.fi

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