[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Rationale: most of us want to release etch ASAP, and most of us want to >remove the firmwares from the kernel ASAP. This is a way that shouldn't This is false: most of us do not mind at all distributing sourceless (or even not modifiable) firmwares in the kernel packages.
>stop the ongoing work on both of these issues. The wording makes it >clear that as soon as the kernel and d-i are able to use split out >firmwares, the migration will have to be done. This way we won't >discourage the work from Nathanael Nerode and other people who worked >hard so far to remove the non-free blobs, and we won't hold etch >development because of that issue. We are not discouraging them, the upstream kernel maintainers did when they clearly showed that they could not care less about their patches. -- ciao, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]