Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote (Fri, 26 Feb 2021 20:27:23 +0100): > 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?
https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2021/02/msg00268.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2020/12/msg00026.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2021/01/msg00001.html https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=971871 An older one: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=921861 And there was a huge discussion on debian-devel in January regarding firmware/nonfree etc., starting here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2021/01/msg00151.html > >> 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. Don't know. Not a lawyer/policy specialist here. Functionality exists for ages in the installer though... Holger -- Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
