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Re: Bug#449497: Policy on Binary Firmware Fetching in Main (e.g. foo2zjs)



On Nov 10, Michael Gilbert <michael.s.gilbert@gmail.com> wrote:

> the maintainer does not believe this to be an issue [1] because the
> firmware fetching stuff is a small part of the total package.  i
The maintainer is correct.

> suggested that he could split out the firmware fetching stuff into a
> contrib package instead, but he didn't seem to think that was a good
> idea.  and even so, that still doesn't solve the second problem.  the
> correct solution would be to put the firmwares into a non-free
> package.
This may or may not be useful, but it would still not make foo2zjs
depend on that firmware as I explained in my other message.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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