On 2/26/21 8:15 PM, Holger Wansing wrote: > This is most probably not a perfect solution, but several > bugs/installation reports have shown that this will become > a wide-spread problem, and therefore this is better than > nothing IMO. > And yes, developers are always able to help themselves, > but we should also think about users and newbies.
Could you link to one or more of those bug reports so I can get an assessment of the situation myself? >> Also, the packages will only be available if you use the non-free >> installer images >> which are not the ones we are shipping by default. So if someone uses >> the default >> DFSG-compliant images, they won't be able to install >> firmware-amd-graphics and >> so on. > > I have tested this, and therefore I know, that the above > is not true: if you have said YES to the question, if > non-free sources should be activated, you can add > such firmware packages from non-free here, and they > will get installed. Wouldn't that be a policy violation? If the regular installer enables non-free sources, I would consider those installer images to be not DFSG-compliant. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
