On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 12:10:26AM +0200, Joey Schulze wrote: > Luk Claes wrote: > > Hi > > > > As probably many of you know, the most heard criticism from users and > > press on Lenny's release is lost hardware support because of missing > > firmware. Users and press are complaining that their servers don't have > > network anymore after an upgrade or that their notebooks cannot be > > installed via wireless... > > > > It's of course possible to load firmware from extra media during > > installation or install the right package (from non-free) when booting > > back to an older kernel (to have network again) to be able to use the > > network with the new kernel... > > > > What do people think of a new vote regarding the status of firmware? One > > of the options can probably be Peter Palfrader's proposal [1]. > > I would rather like to keep binary firmware blobs outside of Debian/main > and maintain them in Debian/non-free with improved and easy ways to load > them during the installation.
I think this is less of a problem than making sure *existing* installations don't break on upgrade because of the lack of some firmware blobs after the upgrade. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
