Also, should this wikipedia article be updated? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_Free_Software_Guidelines
On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 9:55 AM Birzhan Amirov <john.amirov...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> >
