File Overlap Between linux-firmware-nonfree and firmware-crystalhd

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install firmware-crystalhd

after that i've tried to install linux-firmware-nonfree

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: linux-firmware-nonfree 1.14
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-23.35-generic 3.5.7.2
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
AptOrdering:
 linux-firmware-nonfree: Install
 linux-firmware-nonfree: Configure
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Feb 16 12:31:17 2013
Dependencies:

ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/lib/firmware/bcm70012fw.bin', which is also in package firmware-crystalhd 0.0~git20120110.fdd2f19-1
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: linux-firmware-nonfree
Title: package linux-firmware-nonfree 1.14 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/lib/firmware/bcm70012fw.bin', which is also in package firmware-crystalhd 0.0~git20120110.fdd2f19-1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

The firmware-crystalhd package only has 3 firmware files in it. 2 of those files are now included in linux-nonfree. It would make sense to me to also include the lone unique file found in firmware-crystalhd (bcmFilePlayFw.bin) in the linux-nonfree package. That way, the separate firmware-crystalhd package would no longer be needed.

[Dan Lenski (lenski)]

The file bcmFilePlayFw.bin **does not actually do anything** and can be removed. It was **replaced** by bcm70012fw.bin in a very early version of libcrystalhd3 driver (2010):

https://github.com/dbason/crystalhd/commit/14640128497e8e6d8d01d7fc85c4eef043d428c2