Given that the package has cleared the NEW queue by now, I’ve just done the
rename and uploaded the new package. Will file a request for removal for
the old one once the new one is in.

On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Michael Stapelberg <stapelb...@debian.org>
wrote:

> Thanks for the hint, I did not realize that Ubuntu’s linux-firmware-*
> hierarchy is actually firmware-* on Debian.
>
> What’s the best way to rename this package, given that it already sits in
> the NEW queue? Do I need to talk to an ftp-master to remove it from there
> and then do another upload?
>
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 1:34 AM, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2016-11-23 at 22:37 +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote:
>> > Package: wnpp
>> > Severity: wishlist
>> > Owner: Michael Stapelberg <stapelb...@debian.org>
>> >
>> > * Package name    : linux-firmware-raspi3
>>
>> Is this really Linux-specific?  If not, please consider dropping the
>> 'linux-' part.
>>
>> Ben.
>>
>> >   Version         : 1.20161123
>> >   Upstream Author : Raspberry Pi Foundation
>> > * URL             : https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware
>> > * License         : Proprietary
>> >   Description     : Raspberry Pi 3 GPU firmware and bootloaders
>> >
>> >  This package contains all the proprietary files necessary to boot a
>> >  Raspberry Pi 3 board.
>> >  .
>> >  Raspberry Pi is a trademark of the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
>> >
>> > This package will be maintained by the newly created pkg-raspi team, and
>> > is one of the last few pieces of the puzzle to create Debian images for
>> > the Raspberry Pi 3. The package is based on the linux-firmware-raspi2
>> > package from Ubuntu.
>> >
>> --
>> Ben Hutchings
>> [W]e found...that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had
>> thought.
>> ... I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to
>> be spent
>> in finding mistakes in my own programs. - Maurice Wilkes, 1949
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Michael
>



-- 
Best regards,
Michael

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