Just got this on the debian-boot list. It may affect our operations, though probably not severely.
-- hendrik On Sat, Jan 09, 2016 at 11:51:08AM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Hi, > > I think there was consensus to introduce the non-free-firmware section > and move the non-free firmware blobs there. I'm wondering what we need > to do next? > > Besides the ftp team setting the new section up, I expect the installer > would need changes to enable it instead of non-free when non-free > firmware is required; maybe it still needs to ask for non-free as well > for other reasons? Other teams might also need to add the new section, > e.g. the release team, packages.d.o, ... I expect the list to be > hard-coded in quite a few places. > > Then the release notes need to document that "non-free-firmware" might > have to be added to sources.list. > > Finally we need to identify the packages that should move there. I > guess all non-free packages named "firmware-*" would be a good match. > > Ansgar > _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
