On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 10:13:38AM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > > Coming back to looking at Debian after being preoccupied by family > > business, I > > see that the kernel team is not even seriously trying to separate out any > > non-free material. There have been severe regressions from sarge and no > > attempt > > is being made to fix them.
> Why don't you start to send patches then. Seems you have enough free > time to look after such issues. Fixing Kernels to work on more > (sometimes even important machines, like buildds) is a much more > important job than to get rid of oh so non-free firmware. There isn't any patch that should be required here. There is already a script in the kernel team repo to be used for pruning non-free firmware from the tarball, and it appears that whoever produced the initial uploads of 2.6.21 and 2.6.22 for Debian omitted this step. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
