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Re: Going ahead with non-free-firmware



Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org> (2016-01-09):
> I think there was consensus to introduce the non-free-firmware section
> and move the non-free firmware blobs there.  I'm wondering what we need
> to do next?
> 
> Besides the ftp team setting the new section up, I expect the installer
> would need changes to enable it instead of non-free when non-free
> firmware is required; maybe it still needs to ask for non-free as well
> for other reasons?  Other teams might also need to add the new section,
> e.g. the release team, packages.d.o, ...  I expect the list to be
> hard-coded in quite a few places.

As far as the installer goes, I suspect things like the following packages
might need to be looked at:
 - apt-setup
 - discover, discover-data

Mraw,
KiBi.

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