On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 01:25:11AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > 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.
Why not running this script in debian/rules, causing builds to abort when the non-free files are still present? -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
