Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: > Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> writes: > >> Okay. So I take it then that you would be against separate packaging >> for Linux-Libre for Debian, and prefer instead to apply all its >> changes to Debian's Linux? > > I know this wasn't addressed to me, but I feel the urge to weigh in. > > I think the removal of even the ability to load non-free firmware is > stupid and self-defeating and certainly don't think that should be done > in Debian, in either the main Linux kernel packages or, for that matter, > in a separate package.
Shouldn't that be /non-free firmware/external firmware/? If someone starts writing free firmware for some of the affected devices, it will for sure have to live outside the main kernel tree for a while. Later people will still want to give users the option to use the free firmware or the better tested non-free one. Not that I know of any efforts, or even whether that would be realistic. Just a principle thought. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
