-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 20-10-2008 16:32, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20 2008, Thomas Viehmann wrote: >> I queried Robert on IRC and told him that he does not have a realistic >> scenario of fixing the bug and that he would need to come up with a >> working NMUable patch to in order to even have a viable proposition to >> move things forward.[1] >> >> What are the release and ftp team supposed to do here? Sure, I can >> type in "dak rm linux-2.6" and see what happens except the www.d.o >> pseudopackage receiving a bug about removing me from the >> FTP-Assistants list. Disposing of the luggage that is each >> supplementaryGid line in LDAP would enable me to move on to happier >> projects more easily.[2] > > Seems like there are patches stripping the kernel of these > non-free blobs. So, how much would out hardware support be degraded? > How many people are affected by these non-free drivers?
Just as a reference, #484365 talks about linux-libre which seems to be an effort from FSFLA to remove non-free blobs from Linux kernel. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=484365 Kind regards, - -- Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) "Debian. Freedom to code. Code to freedom!" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkj8268ACgkQCjAO0JDlykaAlwCfZwpQ+Rx5Pe4/rloACozBvPnw iIoAn22gly6EjMsx97BzRWOH0ZIjQwua =zH0D -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]