Devuan bug report logs - #210
asking about non-free firmware

Package: debian-installer; Reported by: KatolaZ <[email protected]>; Keywords: ascii; Done: KatolaZ <[email protected]>; Maintainer for debian-installer is Devuan Maintainers <[email protected]>.
bug closed, send any further explanations to KatolaZ <[email protected]> Request was from KatolaZ <[email protected]> to [email protected]. Full text available.

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Package: debian-installer
Tags: ascii

It seems that under some conditions the installer does not ask the
user if they want to load and install non-free firmware, and silently
installs the firmware if needed. The glitch is in hw-detect. I am
trying to fix this before the next ASCII release.

KatolaZ



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bug#210; Package debian-installer. Full text available.

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