Bug#1031696: Also affects bookworm

Pete Batard <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.cd
Message-ID <e0ac8851-0104-992f-1852-0087c0de2e03__10008.2672944822$1678393652$gmane$org@akeo.ie>
Please note that, since bookworm has started to include firmware files, 
this issue is also starting to affect bookworm users [1] and I can only 
advise Debian maintainers to raise its priority, rather than dismiss it 
as something that will only affect folks who don't use DD mode to write 
the ISOHybrid, as this is going to affect people who are used to simply 
extracting the ISO content onto FAT32 media to install Debian on a UEFI 
system.

In short, if this issue is left unaddressed, bookworm will be 
introducing a *regression* compared to bullseye, in that it will no 
longer be possible to perform a Debian installation on a UEFI system 
through file system transposition, and everyone will be forced to either 
use DD or use a utility (like Rufus 3.22) that includes a *custom 
workaround* for Debian, in order to duplicate the symbolically linked 
firmware files.

Regards,

/Pete

[1] 
https://old.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/11mqi55/debian_installer_bookworm_alpha_2_missing_firmware/
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