On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 08:42:07PM +0200, Marco Calviani wrote: > maximilian attems wrote: > > >dilinger is member of the debian kernel team. > >if you'd not trust him, you'd better watch his commits? > > > > > >-- > >maks > > > > > You're right i'm questioning this, since i've also written to him about > this, he's nice and friendly! No, my question was something in > principle: are we going to have it as a official package?
This has been brought up and answered several times a week for the past few months. Its an unfortunate system but here is the situation: 1. There are some bits of code from upstream that can't be included in main, and thus kernel-image packages, because of licencing concerns. In a nutshell they aren't considered DFSG free. 2. These have been moved into the nonfree package mentioned earlier in the thread. This will be uploaded to debian. However, there are some concernes about the distibutability of some of the drivers in the package, and until that is all cleaned up it can't be uploaded. http://www.acm.cs.rpi.edu/~dilinger/kernel-source-nonfree-2.6.11/ 3. In the mean time anyone who needs those drivers has to tediously search the internet and find a message like this one linking to the URL, or use the Kernel.Org kernel. Clearly this sux and I sympathise with complaints about it, even though I am a member of the team that has created this mess. -- Horms -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
