On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 10:55 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 11:43 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Actually, I think we need a GR on the lines of > > ,---- > > | http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_007 > > | General Resolution: Handling source-less firmware in the Linux kernel > > `---- > > > > To get a special dispensation for lenny. > > I think this would be insane. It smacks of the nonsense of the US > Congress extending copyright over and over again, always for a "limited > term", but such that the terms just never actually expire.
According to [1], we are talking about 13 bugs. 5 were opened in August 2 were opened in September 7 were opened in October Thanks to those who hunted those bugs (Robert and Ben), and those who submitted patches (Robert and Ben). > I object very strongly to the feeling that I am being held hostage by > developers who will not fix the bug, and then protest "emergency! we > must release! no delay! we'll do it next time!" and then sit on their > hands again for another go-round. The solution is to refuse to play > along, and to say, "hey, you had two years; we're just going to wait > until you fix the bug." None of the "ignore-lenny" bugs have been opened for two years, right ? How can we expect magazines to reserve their cover-page for us, if they have no clue about when we release ? I'm not saying it's fine to violate SC, I'm just the kind of guy who accept some compromises (temporary compromises here). May be we should only allow such "ignore-lenny" violation, if N+1 (i.e 2.6.27) has the guilty feature removed in experimental? BTW, Kudos to the D-I team who did an excellent job handling non-free firmware in Lenny. A user is prompted for non-free firmware. That's a very good way to reverse the "not supported" paradigm: As far as a user is concerned, it is not Linux that doesn't support "my" device, it is "my" device that require a damned non-free driver. Franklin [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?include=subject%3Afirmware;tag=lenny-ignore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
