Testing the gnome live image for the 12.3 release...

Running d-i from that image complained early on about missing Intel SOF
firmware. Later on, the same image finds and loads intel wifi firmware
just fine. Checking on the image, all the firmware debs are sym-linked
in /firmware just fine but we don't have the extra metadata file
(Contents file and dep11 stuff). Early on, AFAICS this means that the
sof firmware isn't detected and loaded.

Indeed, checking a d-i speech installation from this image, I don't
get audio. Argh.

Checking the same machine (Thinkpad T14s) with the amd64 netinst, it
successfully loads firmware and starts the speech installer.

This isn't new for Bookworm 12.3, is it? There has been no change in the
images generated by live-build regarding the /firmware folder, they have
always contained just the symlinked .deb files.

I only recently started to look deeper into the special folders for the
installer and noticed that the content of /firmware differs between the
netinst and the live images.

Let's discuss this under less time pressure (today is the 12.3 release day).
I think that this ticket could be re-assigned (or cloned) to live-build
for the implementation of the fix.

If needed, could a 12.3.1 live image be released, with just this fix,
instead of waiting for 12.4?

With kind regards,
Roland Clobus

Nod; this is just the first time I've realised this behaviour.

For other reasons, we're about to do a quick-turnaround 12.4. But
otherwise the sentiment is fine, yes! :-)

Hello Steve,

The live images should now fully support the firmware/dep11 files as
present on the netinst images (since [1])

With the upcoming 12.11 point release, the dep11 files will be present
in the bookworm images as well.

As noted in the Bookworm 12.10 release notes [2], could you test whether
the speech installation works now (with e.g a weekly live image [3])?

With kind regards,
Roland Clobus

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-build/-/merge_requests/416
[2]
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianCD/ReleaseTesting/Bookworm_r10#Live_images
[3] https://get.debian.org/images/weekly-live-builds/amd64/iso-hybrid/