On Wed, 2022-06-08 at 21:48 +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > Recently, Steve McIntyre initiated a discussion[1] on debian-devel on > the future of firmware in Debian, and how we want to address it > as a project.
I think Steve wanted to have a GR about this? > Paul's suggestion[2] of copying out firmare to non-free/firmware seems to > make a tremendous amount of sense. This will allow us to generate images > that have only firmware enabled for non-free packages by default, improving > the current status quo, and, it wouldn't require a GR. I really don't like adding anything with a slash. Having updates/main instead of main on security.d.o already caused lots of cornercases and we now got (partly) rid of that. Just name it non-free-firmware. > So, I'm asking the FTP team to please consider implementing this. So we should not wait for a GR proposing a different solution? Ansgar
