Re: lack of tg3 in kernel -- please contact Broadcom

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 23:58 +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 02:53:48PM -0700, Alex Perry wrote:
> > Why can't we have a package that's called
> >    kernel-source-2.6.2-nonfree
> > as well as the existing one
> >    kernel-source-2.6.2
> > that are both automatically generated from the upstream
> > and placed into the main and non-free portions of our servers?
> 
> Several binary packages built from one source package must all be in the
> same component (i.e. main *or* non-free *or* contrib) of the archive.
> 
> Of course, this is all totally unspecific to the amd64 port.

If the kernel package maintainer is pulling the Evil Embedded Binaries
out of the package, then why *not* put them in a a different package?

For example: 
  kernel-source-2.6.5-evil-embedded-binaries_2.6.5_3.deb

-- 
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>