Hello, Thank you for your quick and detailed reply.
> I suppose that we could provide a tool that would be able produce an image with no non-free data on it ... but the effort required to build and test such a tool would have to be diverted from other tasks. > ... to contribute to such an effort, then I'm sure the Debian-CD team will be glad to explain what would be involved. Just curious, is my understanding correct, that you had such a tool at the time of 11.6.0, but not anymore? Regards, John. On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 7:17 AM Philip Hands <p...@hands.com> wrote: > "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amaca...@einval.com> writes: > > > On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 04:38:58PM -0700, Birzhan Amirov wrote: > ... > >> Do you have an `Official` way to de-poison your release, and if so, is > it > >> published as a document? > >> > > > > You can pass various parameters to the installer: you can also uninstall > the > > non-free firmware after installation - a record of what is installed is > recorded > > Andy seems to have given you something of a politician's answer there, > so I'll try giving a more direct one: > > No, not as far as I know (if by "de-poison" you mean get to the point > where the resulting image file has no trace of the firmware on it). > > However, it is possible to instruct the installer to not take any notice > of the firmware, nor even try to detect if it might be needed: > > > https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware#How_to_disable_detection_and_use_of_non-free_firmware > > which will provide you with exactly the same experience as would have > been achieved by using media that did not include the firmware in the > first place. > > I suppose that we could provide a tool that would be able produce an > image with no non-free data on it (by replacing relevant portions of the > images with NUL characters, say) but the effort required to build and > test such a tool would have to be diverted from other tasks (e.g. > getting the media to work at all, on currently unsupported hardware). > > If you feel that such a tool should be written, and have the skills to > contribute to such an effort, then I'm sure the Debian-CD team will be > glad to explain what would be involved. > > Cheers, Phil. > -- > Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil >
