Re: Reconsidering Debian’s Inclusion of Non-Free Firmware - A Call for Discussion

2025-03-07 Thread Dirk Lehmann
Hello Debian-Devel mailing list =D imho, an interesting topic. In conjunction with [1] my first notion was: We should not guide that proprietary software is insecure. That's not correct, i.e. in the case of non-free-firmware it is nearly equivalent to say that the usage of proprietary hardware i

Re: General Questions about Translations and what a package maintainer has to do

2025-03-11 Thread Dirk Lehmann
Hello Marc, I am currently new as Debian Maintainer, but I have more experience from upstream-side. As I understand your question about a general workflow of translations in all your email-cases correct, I think the short answer maybe to use `quilt` to patch the .PO files instead of committing t

Re: Should GPU shaders be considered firmware?

2025-03-12 Thread Dirk Lehmann
Hello Stephan, On 3/12/25 12:10 PM, Stephan Verbücheln wrote: Hello everyone The “drivers” for hardware video decoders on Intel GPUs have been split into free and non-free packages. https://packages.debian.org/en/sid/intel-media-va-driver https://packages.debian.org/en/sid/intel-media-va-drive

Re: Should GPU shaders be considered firmware?

2025-03-15 Thread Dirk Lehmann
Hell Stephan =) On 3/15/25 12:52 PM, Stephan Verbücheln wrote: Am Donnerstag, dem 13.03.2025 um 02:37 +0100 schrieb Dirk Lehmann: GPU shaders should be clearly respected as software (and not hardware).  Therefore, `intel-media-va-driver-non-free` is rightly in the Debian archive `non-free

Re: General Questions about Translations and what a package maintainer has to do

2025-03-19 Thread Dirk Lehmann
Hey Marc, On 3/11/25 12:03 PM, Marc Haber wrote: Basically the same applies for this step than for the POT generation step, with the additional hardship that the PO files are generated, being written to by a program AND STILL contain a significant part of human work. I never know how much work o