On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 01:22:16AM -0500, Adam Majer wrote: > Nathanael Nerode wrote: > >Adam Majer wrote: > >>As to the non-free binary blobs, these are to be moved to non-free. > >>There should be an automatic 'non-free removal patches' (not part of > >>the actual debian source). > > > >To follow the X Strike Force model (which seems to work) I suggest a > >'prune-non-free' script, which should be shipped in the debian/ > >directory of the source package .diff for convenience. This script > >would convert an upstream source tree to a 'debian-clean' source > >tree. > > I don't think we can do that. The source to the package has to be > free. The patches to remove non-free things and put them in non-free > need to applied to the vanilla kernel to make a Debian kernel source > (orig.tar.gz) and a non-free blob source.
Of course. That doesn't stop you putting the scripts that remove non-free things somewhere in the Debian diff for convenience and cooperation, though. See doc-linux. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
