(03-15-2023, 10:08 AM)diederik Wrote:

(03-15-2023, 07:29 AM)mburns Wrote:

(03-14-2023, 07:18 AM)diederik Wrote:

(03-09-2023, 03:46 PM)mburns Wrote: There is now a held back version of the Mobian pinephonepro-support package that is necessary for a working network connection. So users can not update Mobian until that package is not held back. This is as of Thursday afternoon, March 9.

https://blog.mobian.org/posts/2023/03/11/non-free-firmware/

Actually, a distribution should automate this kind of transition, before wifi is lost. Everyday an updated installation is not functional, a fraction of users would be lost.

Agreed, but this caused by an unfortunately set of circumstances:
- Mobian is actually Debian + Mobian, so actually 2 distros combined into 1
- Debian made a change in non-free-firmware which collided with a 'patch' that Mobian had, while unaware that Mobian had that
- So Mobian dropped their patch and switched to the Debian package, but the change wrt the non-free-firmware archive area hadn't been communicated yet

A new archive area (non-free-firmware) is something that rarely happens, so chances of that happening again are really slim.
There's now better collaboration/coordination between Debian and Mobian to (hopefully) prevent such things from happening again.

When a transition needs to happen within Debian, that is automatically handled. But such things don't work (automatically) across distros.

HTH