On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 06:59:45PM +0000, Bill Allombert wrote: > Le Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 11:42:10AM -0700, Soren Stoutner a écrit : > > In the original GR, one of the options that lost was for Debian to host two > > sets of installer > > images, one with non-free firmware and one without, and for users to be > > able to make an > > informed decision before downloading the installer. > > > > https://www.debian.org/vote/2022/vote_003#textc > > > > This option did not prevail in the vote, but it would have been my > > preferred choice (I was > > not a Debian Developer at the time and so did not vote, but I did follow > > the discussion). > > True, but the GR does not prevent Debian of providing a second set of > installer images. What is required is someone to do the work, as usual. >
For anyone interested - others will happily provide instructions as needed but may not wish to carry out the work involved themselves, having already done this for some years: Please feel free to pick up the code and generate the second set of installer images, maintaining the code to exclude non-free-firmware. Don't forget to also do this for debian live media images and coordinate this for all architectures,while ensuring that these are reproducible. Please also be prepared to deal with the number of users who complain that the installer doesn't work for them because they no longer have sound, WiFi or whatever. Please be prepared to help them install tarballs of non-free firmware as appropriate to solve each issue raised. Don't forget to coordinate wiki and Debian web site edits accordingly. Please also be prepared to carry out release testing for each image that is not including firmware per point release every couple of months - I'm assuming you'll be more than happy to check twenty or thirty tests of images yourself. [This last should only take about four hours if you can persuade others to help but may take longer if you are working on your own]. Thank you for volunteering to carry out these tasks. With every good wish, as ever, Andy Cater (amaca...@debian.org) > Cheers, > -- > Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> > > Imagine a large red swirl here. >
