We have a few fully-free firmware packages in main, and a few downloaders
(e.g. b43-installer and b43legacy-installer) in contrib; the latter might
not be really interesting without an alternative connectivity during the
installation process.
Regarding non-free vs. non-free-firmware, we started moving packages[1] from
the former to the latter so that we could build official installation images
based on main and non-free-firmware only.
1. https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2023/01/msg00150.html
At the moment, NON_FREE_COMPONENTS still lists both, but the plan is to move
to non-free-firmware only once all the packages we want are available there.
The relevant variables regarding components include:
- CONTRIB
- NONFREE
- EXTRANONFREE
- FORCE_FIRMWARE
This commit implements:
- using main all the time;
- using contrib if CONTRIB=1;
- using NONFREE_COMPONENTS if NONFREE=1 or EXTRANONFREE=1 or FORCE_FIRMWARE=1.
At the moment it seems the only existing caller is the top-level Makefile,
only when FORCE_FIRMWARE is set. But it seems to make sense to match what
tools/apt-selection does, to avoid any surprises.
Cyril Brulebois
Steve McIntyre
Steve McIntyre