[Pkg-raspi-maintainers] Bug#1023741: Bug#1023741: raspi-firmware: Please transfer brcmfmac43456-sdio.* files to firmware-brcm80211 package

Diederik de Haas didi.debian at cknow.org
Fri Apr 21 16:02:57 BST 2023


Control: severity -1 critical

On Friday, 21 April 2023 16:53:39 CEST Diederik de Haas wrote:
> While I now do have those files in ``/lib/firmware/brcm/`` it caused various
> error which will only go away if I uninstall this package again.
> And as expected, at least the assumption that ``/boot/firmware`` is present
> (and being a mountpoint?) is incorrect, which causes the package
> installation to fail, but it seems to also break any kernel related
> actions?
> So I've increased the severity to 'serious'.

It's even worse, it looks like I CAN'T uninstall the package (using normal 
tools; will likely try ``dpkg -f`` to brute force it later), so it's also 
breaking unrelated software, hence further increase to 'critical'.

```sh
root at cs21:~# aptitude purge raspi-firmware
The following packages will be REMOVED:  
  raspi-firmware{p} 
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
  initramfs-tools 
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
E: Can't find a source to download version '6.1.15-1' of 'linux-image-6.1.0-6-
arm64:arm64'
After unpacking 22.8 MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] 
E: Can't find a source to download version '6.1.15-1' of 'linux-image-6.1.0-6-
arm64:arm64'
E: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download
E: Perhaps the package lists are out of date, please try 'aptitude update' (or 
equivalent); otherwise some packages or versions are not available from the 
current repository sources
root at cs21:~# aptitude update
Hit http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security InRelease
Get: 1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease [181 kB]
Get: 2 http://deb.debian.org/debian sid InRelease [184 kB]
Get: 3 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main Sources.diff/Index [63.6 kB]
Get: 4 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main arm64 Packages.diff/Index 
[63.6 kB]
Get: 5 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main Translation-en.diff/Index 
[63.6 kB]
Get: 6 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main all Contents (deb).diff/Index 
[63.8 kB]
Get: 7 http://deb.debian.org/debian sid/main Sources.diff/Index [63.6 kB]                                                                                                                    
Get: 8 http://deb.debian.org/debian sid/main arm64 Packages.diff/Index [63.6 
kB]                                                                                                             
Get: 9 http://deb.debian.org/debian sid/main arm64 Contents (deb).diff/Index 
[63.8 kB]
Get: 10 http://deb.debian.org/debian sid/main all Contents (deb).diff/Index 
[63.8 kB]
Get: 11 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main Sources 
T-2023-04-21-1417.27-F-2023-04-21-1417.27.pdiff [33 B]                                                                            
Get: 12 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main arm64 Packages 
T-2023-04-21-1417.27-F-2023-04-21-1417.27.pdiff [33 B]                                                                     
Get: 13 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main Translation-en 
T-2023-04-21-1417.27-F-2023-04-21-1417.27.pdiff [33 B]
Get: 14 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main all Contents (deb) 
T-2023-04-21-1417.27-F-2023-04-21-1417.27.pdiff [49 B]
Get: 15 http://deb.debian.org/debian sid/main Sources T-2023-04-21-1417.27-
F-2023-04-21-1417.27.pdiff [2,951 B]
Get: 16 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main Sources 
T-2023-04-21-1417.27-F-2023-04-21-1417.27.pdiff [33 B]                                                                            
Get: 17 http://deb.debian.org/debian sid/main arm64 Packages 
T-2023-04-21-1417.27-F-2023-04-21-1417.27.pdiff [2,503 B]
Get: 18 http://deb.debian.org/debian sid/main arm64 Contents (deb) 
T-2023-04-21-1417.27-F-2023-04-21-1417.27.pdiff [88 B]
Get: 19 http://deb.debian.org/debian sid/main Sources T-2023-04-21-1417.27-
F-2023-04-21-1417.27.pdiff [2,951 B]                                                                              
Get: 20 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main all Contents (deb) 
T-2023-04-21-1417.27-F-2023-04-21-1417.27.pdiff [49 B]
Get: 21 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main Translation-en 
T-2023-04-21-1417.27-F-2023-04-21-1417.27.pdiff [33 B]
Get: 22 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main arm64 Packages 
T-2023-04-21-1417.27-F-2023-04-21-1417.27.pdiff [33 B]
Get: 23 http://deb.debian.org/debian sid/main all Contents (deb) 
T-2023-04-21-1417.27-F-2023-04-21-1417.27.pdiff [288 B]
Get: 24 http://deb.debian.org/debian sid/main arm64 Contents (deb) 
T-2023-04-21-1417.27-F-2023-04-21-1417.27.pdiff [88 B]                                                                    
Get: 25 http://deb.debian.org/debian sid/main arm64 Packages 
T-2023-04-21-1417.27-F-2023-04-21-1417.27.pdiff [2,503 B]
Get: 26 http://deb.debian.org/debian sid/main all Contents (deb) 
T-2023-04-21-1417.27-F-2023-04-21-1417.27.pdiff [288 B]                                                                     
Fetched 880 kB in 53s (16.6 kB/s)                                                                                                                                                            
                                         
Current status: 1 (+1) upgradable.
root at cs21:~# aptitude purge raspi-firmware
The following packages will be REMOVED:  
  raspi-firmware{ap} 
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
  initramfs-tools 
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
E: Can't find a source to download version '6.1.15-1' of 'linux-image-6.1.0-6-
arm64:arm64'
After unpacking 22.8 MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] 
E: Can't find a source to download version '6.1.15-1' of 'linux-image-6.1.0-6-
arm64:arm64'
E: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download
E: Perhaps the package lists are out of date, please try 'aptitude update' (or 
equivalent); otherwise some packages or versions are not available from the 
current repository sources
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