Public bug reported:
During Stonking final testing, it was noticed that
`/usr/lib/firmware/qcom` was eating a lot of space on stonking-
preinstalled-server-amd64.img images, where it is not relevant, being
(mostly? only?) arm64 files.
This is because linux-firmware carries a hard dependency on the linux-
firmware-qualcomm-* packages, even if they are not relevant to the amd64
architecture.
Timo had a suggestion on how to improve the situation:
> tjaalton: right, so there are several ways to make it better, like maybe
> change the dep to linux-firmware-minimal, and change it's Recommends on the
> split packaging to be arch-specific where it makes sense
See screenshots attached for some details.
** Affects: linux-firmware (Ubuntu)
Importance: Medium
Status: New
** Attachment added: "2026-10-15-08_40_05.png"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2170927/+attachment/6009379/+files/2026-10-15-08_40_05.png
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Only ship firmware relevant to the current architecture OR How
Qualcomm eats 11% more space than Intel on amd64 image
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