Re: Going ahead with non-free-firmware

[Ansgar <ansgar@debian.org>]

Hi,

Hideki Yamane <henrich@iijmio-mail.jp> writes:
>  Is there any progress about non-free-firmware section?

Sadly no; I think some later discussion made me doubt that there was
indeed consensus about having non-free-firmware (and only that and not
non-free-doc, non-free-drivers, non-free-*).  Nor about how it would
work.

I don't think we should add a new component without having that
(component meaning main, contrib, non-free, non-free-firmware here).
They are not nice to handle on the archive side.

Ansgar

>> 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