[MIR] linux-firmware-raspi2 to restricted
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux-firmware-raspi2 (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
1. Availability: The package is already available in multiverse and is already used on all of our Ubuntu Raspberry Pi images.
2. Rationale: As mentioned above, the package is already used on all of our Ubuntu Raspberry Pi preinstalled images (raspi) - and has been used there since the first raspi2 images have been supported. It is essentially a mistake that the package is still in multiverse, as we should not build images using packages outside of main and restricted.
3. Security: So far there has been no CVE or any security vulnerability reported for our package. Generally the package consists of binary blobs coming from the Raspberry Pi foundation.
4. Quality assurance: The package is easy to test and verify, as this is an essential package to the operation of Ubuntu on Raspberry Pi. It is maintained by Ubuntu Foundations, along with extensive QA on various Pi platforms.
5. Dependencies: The package has no dependencies (only shipping binary blobs).
6. Standards compliance: The licensing of the binaries is a bit ugly, but all the proprietary bits are well documented in debian/copyright.
7. Maintenance: The package is actively maintained by the Ubuntu Foundations team.
8. Background information:
As mentioned, this package is already used for all our images, so we are already treating it as a package from restricted per-se. So moving the package to restricted should only be a formality. All the hosted binary blobs are essential to our Ubuntu raspi experience, so we can't really do much without them.
Another important note: this package is not part of any seed right now, but instead pulled in via livecd-rootfs directly when building raspi images (we'll figure something better for the future).
description: | updated |
Changed in linux-firmware-raspi2 (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
tags: | added: id-5e53f2f2d6e1d42c63b0752f |
Changed in linux-firmware-raspi2 (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | Matthias Klose (doko) → nobody |
In last weeks MIR meeting doko was assigned to review this (and discuss inside the team with sil2100 as needed).
I Updated the bug tasks to reflect that.