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[Tomi Pieviläinen <tomi.pievilainen+launchpad@xxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

xserver-xorg-video-radeon suggests to install firmware-linux, which does
not exist. Bug #565482 was marked not fix, because the suggestion
already exists in Debian. However this is not a bug in there, since that
package does indeed exist in Debian, but not in Ubuntu. The correct
package in ubuntu is linux-firmware, which combines the debian packages
firmware-linux-free and firmware-linux-nonfree (firmware-linux is a
metapackage that pulls in both of the real packages). linux-firmware is
crucial because without the radeon microcodes, using the radeon driver
would be impossible (see
http://wiki.x.org/wiki/radeonBuildHowTo#Missing_firmware).

The problem hasn't manifested because many people have linux-firmware
already installed due to other dependencies. However I do not believe
that is a proper reason to leave the dependencies of this package broken
in purpose, especially when this is trivial to fix. For example people
running their own custom kernels wouldn't have the firmware package
pulled in at all (and please don't go and say that only power users do
that and power users don't matter).

** Affects: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: maverick natty oneiric precise

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  Suggested package "firmware-linux" does not exist

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