Re: Debian AMD64 Archive Move
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 01:48:14PM -0400, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> If you had read my response to Goswin, you would know we aren't talking about
> release dates for anything, I'm talking about Sid, which will eventually
> become Etch, but obviously will exist for a long time before Etch does. :)
> The issue here is just the co-location of non-free and the AMD64 repository
> (whatever its called, wherever its located). Those 2 will find themselves
> together again on debian.org long before Etch sees the light of day, but the
> point is there is no reason to separate them *now*.
I for one as a user would like to be able to run sarge on my amd64
machine, and have the nvidia driver (and maybe a few other non-free
packages), so not all of us are talking about sid and etch. A lot of us
are talking about sarge for amd64 unofficial port. That will require
checking of the non-free packages (or at least of the packages anyone
cares about).
At least non-US seems to have died out so we don't need to worry about
that.
Maybe I should go read the license about the nvidia driver and report on
that one. If everyone reports on the packages in non-free they would
like, we might get this job done soon.
here is an excerpt from /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-source/copyright:
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First a note from the README file
Q: Why does NVIDIA not provide rpms anymore?
A: Not every Linux distribution uses rpm, and NVIDIA wanted a single
solution that would work across all Linux distributions. As
indicated
in the NVIDIA Software License, Linux distributions are welcome to
repackage and redistribute the NVIDIA Linux driver in whatever package
format they wish.
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To me this looks like nvidia drivers are fine for inclusion.
Len Sorensen
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