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<pubDate>Thu, 4 Feb 2016 16:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>The <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DEP-11">appstream system</a> is
-taking shape in Debian, and one feature set that is very convenient is
-its ability to tell you want package to install to get a given
-firmware file. This can be done using apt-file too, but that is for
-someone else to blog about. :)</p>
+ <description><p>The <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DEP-11">appstream system</a>
+is taking shape in Debian, and one provided feature is a very
+convenient way to tell you which package to install to make a given
+firmware file available when the kernel is looking for it. This can
+be done using apt-file too, but that is for someone else to blog
+about. :)</p>
<p>Here is a small recipe to find the package with a given firmware
file, in this example I am looking for ctfw-3.2.3.0.bin, randomly