Paul Gevers:
Hi,
On 03-08-2024 11:55, Niels Thykier wrote:
Since the non-free is entirely opt-in and you had to be very active
about opt'ing in as a admin, this seem fine. With the change to
non-free-firmware now being enabled by d-i by default, we now have
non-free-firmware packages installed by default that can use this
opt-out and for me, that changes the game a bit.
I totally agree.
I have not checked whether all non-free-firmware is auto-buildable
It would be good if we had the answer to this question, because changing
britney2 to do the check for all binaries is trivial [1], and adding a
hint explicitly for those that aren't auto-buildable seems maintainable
(there are currently only 15 sources in non-free-firmware in sid).
Paul
[1]
https://salsa.debian.org/release-team/britney2/-/blob/master/britney2/policies/policy.py?ref_type=heads#L1543
Had a quick look at the testing `Sources` file for non-free-firmware. We
are 10/15 on `Autobuild: yes` with remaining 5 not having the header.
No clue whether they could get that or we have to compromise already
here. Though, even if they can, there is also the aspect of whether we
are ready to commit to all new firmware being `Autobuild: yes`. I
figured `d-boot` might have an opinion on that (which is why I have
CC'ed them on this bug).
The 5 that are not `Autobuild: yes` would be:
atmel-firmware
bluez-firmware
dahdi-firmware
live-tasks-non-free-firmware
midisport-firmware
(as far as my wetware was able to eyeball)
Best regards,
Niels
