Re: Debian sponsoring Chinese companies?

2005-01-08 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Chris Waters wrote: > The Debian project itself provides advertising opportunities through > its mailing lists and bug tracking system, though, so one could argue > that there is ample precedent. :) Actually, the BTS and the lists are handled very differently. The crap is usua

Re: Debian sponsoring Chinese companies?

2005-01-08 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-01-08 12:13:43, schrieb Santiago Vila: > Actually, the BTS and the lists are handled very differently. > The crap is usually removed from the BTS as soon as it's detected. > I wish we did the same for the lists archives. I am subscribed to more then 70 Mailinglists since 2000 and gotten m

Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem

2005-01-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
It's becomingly increasingly common for hardware to require firmware to be loaded by the device driver on boot, rather than containing it in ROM. This is unfortunate, because in most cases the firmware is non-free. As a result, a naive application of policy suggests that drivers which require this

Re: Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem

2005-01-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 02:36:03AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > An alternative would be to leave non-free firmware in non-free, but not > to enforce the requirement that drivers depending on it end up in > contrib. This is possibly the most straight forward, and by squinting > funny we could po

Re: Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem

2005-01-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think I have a problem, conceptually, with a kernel package which > provides drivers for 10,000 different types of hardware, and needs to load > firmware from disk for 300 of them, being in main (without a > Depends:/Recommends: relationship on t