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Author: Olaf Meeuwissen
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To: wirelessduck
CC: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Microcode and Nvidia drivers on Daedalus
Hi,

wirelessduck--- via Dng <dng@???> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Just a quick note on something that I didn’t see in the Daedalus release notes.
>
> Cpu microcode packages have been moved to the new `non-free-firmware`
> repository component, so anyone using intel-microcode or
> amd64-microcode packages will have to add this new component in
> sources.list.
>
> I think this might actually be documented somewhere but perhaps I missed it?
>
> In any case, the nvidia-driver package now also requires the
> non-free-firmware component to install one of its dependency
> packages. This is something I didn’t see documented anywhere even in
> debian 12 release notes.


Guess you missed the top of

https://www.debian.org/News/2023/20230610

and the section on archive areas in the Release Notes proper

https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#archive-areas

Hope this helps,
--
Olaf Meeuwissen