Re: Debian kernel maintainter takeover
On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 01:22:16AM -0500, Adam Majer wrote:
> Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> >Adam Majer wrote:
> >>As to the non-free binary blobs, these are to be moved to non-free.
> >>There should be an automatic 'non-free removal patches' (not part of
> >>the actual debian source).
> >
> >To follow the X Strike Force model (which seems to work) I suggest a
> >'prune-non-free' script, which should be shipped in the debian/
> >directory of the source package .diff for convenience. This script
> >would convert an upstream source tree to a 'debian-clean' source
> >tree.
>
> I don't think we can do that. The source to the package has to be
> free. The patches to remove non-free things and put them in non-free
> need to applied to the vanilla kernel to make a Debian kernel source
> (orig.tar.gz) and a non-free blob source.
Of course. That doesn't stop you putting the scripts that remove
non-free things somewhere in the Debian diff for convenience and
cooperation, though. See doc-linux.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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