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Package: cdimage.debian.org
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tomreyn+debbts1@megaglest.org
Dear maintainers,
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/amd64/iso-cd/ (and similar locations) provide several notes on available downloads. One of them currently reads:
<h2>Non-free Firmware</h2>
<p>This Debian image build only includes Free Software where
possible. However, many systems include hardware which depends on
non-free firmware to function properly so this build also includes
those firmware files for those cases. See the Debian
Wiki <a href="
https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware">non-free
firmware</a> page for more information.</p>
According to the wiki page this note links to, (all?) installer images include relevant non-free firmware (by default) since bookworm alpha 2. I assume the way this note is phrased was more useful when there were separate 'non-free firmware' images
provided in addition to 'default' images (which did /not/ include non-free-firmware before bookworm alpha 2).
If this note was kept to point out the fact that commonly needed non-free-firmware is now included in the 'default' installer images, I suggest rephrasing this message slightly, to make it clear that it now refers to all (?) images.
Alternatively, this message could be removed because drivers / devices malfunctioning for lack of non-free-firmware should no longer pose an issue most of the time, and pointing out that non-free-firmware is included in images does not seem to provide
much of a value in and by itself.
Thanks for your consideration,
Tom
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