Re: Firmware vote rationale

2006-10-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 02:23:05PM +, Thaddeus H. Black wrote: > This is to record the reason behind my firmware GR vote > (not that you are expected to mind what I think, but I > wish to go on record at vote time anyway). Debian > should in my view treat firmware differently than other > soft

Re: Firmware vote rationale

2006-10-12 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 12 octobre 2006 à 14:23 +, Thaddeus H. Black a écrit : > Choice 2 ranks below Further Discussion mostly because I > am not yet sure that granting kernel upstream a > permanent special privilege the DFSG denies other > upstream developers is prudent in the long term. I think you are mi

Firmware vote rationale

2006-10-12 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
This is to record the reason behind my firmware GR vote (not that you are expected to mind what I think, but I wish to go on record at vote time anyway). Debian should in my view treat firmware differently than other software. Although this does not necessarily mean that Debian should distribute