[Pkg-mythtv-maintainers] Bug#523790: Documentation refers to non-existing firmware package

[David Headland]

Package: ivtv-utils
Version: 1.2.0-1
Severity: minor

Hello,

After recently purchasing a card supported by the IVTV driver, I've been
installing ivtv-utils and similar to get things up and running. Documentation
in ivtv-utils says (in file /usr/share/doc/ivtv-utils/README.Debian):

The IVTV drivers require firmware which can be obtained by installing
the firmware-ivtv package from non-free. (previously the firmware package was
called ivtv-firmware.)

However, as far as I can tell, neither packages named firmware-ivtv nor
ivtv-firmware are currently available in Debian lenny, squeeze or sid, in
main contrib or non-free. Downloading and installing the firmware as suggested
on the IVTV Wiki at http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Firmware causes
everything to work correctly. Would it be more sensible to point people either
to that URL or directly to the tarball at
http://dl.ivtvdriver.org/ivtv/firmware/ivtv-firmware.tar.gz in the
ivtv-utils documentation?

All the best,
-Dave.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (550, 'testing'), (450, 'unstable'), (450, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29.1
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ivtv-utils depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.9-4      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libconfig-inifiles-perl       2.47-1     Read .ini-style configuration file
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.3.3-5  GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6                    4.3.3-5    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libvideo-ivtv-perl            0.13-6+b1  Perl extension for using V4l2 in t
ii  perl                          5.10.0-19  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

Versions of packages ivtv-utils recommends:
ii  devscripts                    2.10.47    scripts to make the life of a Debi
ii  fakeroot                      1.12.2     Gives a fake root environment
pn  perl-tk                       <none>     (no description available)
ii  unzip                         5.52-12    De-archiver for .zip files

ivtv-utils suggests no packages.

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