clone 523790 -1 reassign -1 firmware-nonfree thanks On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 15:19 +0100, David Headland wrote: > Package: ivtv-utils > Version: 1.2.0-1 > Severity: minor > > Hello, > > After recently purchasing a card supported by the IVTV driver, I've been > installing ivtv-utils and similar to get things up and running. Documentation > in ivtv-utils says (in file /usr/share/doc/ivtv-utils/README.Debian): > > The IVTV drivers require firmware which can be obtained by installing > the firmware-ivtv package from non-free. (previously the firmware package was > called ivtv-firmware.) > > However, as far as I can tell, neither packages named firmware-ivtv nor > ivtv-firmware are currently available in Debian lenny, squeeze or sid, in > main contrib or non-free. Downloading and installing the firmware as suggested > on the IVTV Wiki at http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Firmware causes > everything to work correctly. Would it be more sensible to point people either > to that URL or directly to the tarball at > http://dl.ivtvdriver.org/ivtv/firmware/ivtv-firmware.tar.gz in the > ivtv-utils documentation?
Hi David, thanks for the bug report. When I made the ivtv package with this documentation I also uploaded a firmware package however this was rejected (more was needed to comply with the license). I later had discussions with the kernel team about including the firmware in the firmware-nonfree package[0,1] but this petered out without anything happening and I never remember to revisit. Now that the ivtv driver is in the kernel proper I think firmware-nonfree is even more the correct place for this driver. I've assigned a clone of this bug to that package and kept the original to remind me to update the ivtv package docs with the result. Ian. [0] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-mythtv-maintainers/2007-April/000258.html [1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-mythtv-maintainers/2007-July/000347.html -- Ian Campbell Hey, if pi == 3, and three == 0, does that make pi == 0? :-) -- Larry Wall in <199711011926.laa25...@wall.org>
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