Why you place b43 firmware in /lib/firmware rather than install firmware installer package

[CicadaSeventeen]

b43 firmware is not installed by any packages. I even can not find them on kernel.org.
Debian provides installer for them in repository. However, SpiralLinux does not use it but to place it in chroot directory.
Is there any reason to do so? Why not use installer packages?

[geckolinux]

What Debian provides is just an installer script that downloads the firmware from https://www.lwfinger.com/b43-firmware/broadcom-wl-6.30.163.46.tar.bz2 , and it also depends on b43-fwcutter that extracts the firmware files and places them in in /lib/firmware/b43/. We can try to include it in the package list, but I seem to remember that it failed during the live-build stage in the chroot environment.

[CicadaSeventeen]

Thanks. BTW, why you put 3 packages in the files. If just use packages from repository to build the iso, will there be any problem?

[geckolinux]

BTW, why you put 3 packages in the files

Those are necessary to override the packages that would normally come from the Debian Stable repositories. There is actually a 4th package in the most recent version, but it was too big to upload to Github so I didn't include it in the tar.gz .

• firmware-iwlwifi_20210818-1_all.deb - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=987116
• broadcom-sta-dkms_6.30.223.271-20~bpo11+1_all.deb - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1012647
• r8168-dkms_8.050.03-1~bpo11+1_all.deb - https://groups.google.com/g/linux.debian.bugs.dist/c/7SVtJBW1uLA
• calamares_3.2.56-1~bpo11+1_amd64.deb - A newer version of Calamares is required for certain functions in SpiralLinux.

[CicadaSeventeen]

Thanks a lot. The first package is from Sid right?