Re: Going ahead with non-free-firmware

[Hideki Yamane <henrich@iijmio-mail.jp>]

Hi,

 Is there any progress about non-free-firmware section?


> Hi,
> 
> 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.
> 
> Then the release notes need to document that "non-free-firmware" might
> have to be added to sources.list.
> 
> Finally we need to identify the packages that should move there.  I
> guess all non-free packages named "firmware-*" would be a good match.
> 
> Ansgar

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Regards,

 Hideki Yamane     henrich @ debian.org/iijmio-mail.jp