Hi Jason, Jason Self wrote:
> It appears that the source package for firmware-linux-free contains the > firmware binaries downloaded from linux-firmware.git. Shouldn't a source > package contain, you know, the source code? Especially as some of the > firmwares are GPL-licensed, and Debian is shipping only the binaries. Can you be more specific? Which file have you found in the source package that does not have corresponding source included? > In looking into other distros it seems that that most don't compile the > firmware from source either. As a result people don't notice when the tools > to do so break. For example: The as31 assembler needed to build the usbdux > firmware currently segfaults. Reference bug #887320. That sounds like a different bug report: "package doesn't build from source". Thanks and hope that helps, Jonathan