Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> (2023-01-22):
> On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 05:01:36PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > > don't we want to default this to true?
> > Why would we enable non-free-firmware if there's no use for it?
> > hw-detect makes that determination, based on contents prepared by
> > debian-cd.
>
> a. ah, I wasn't aware of this. thanks.
That's why I mentioned work on hw-detect and debian-cd…
> b. to support pluggable hw not present at installation time?
How would that help? People will still need to install packages anyway.
Anyway, going back to what was agreed upon in the GR vote:
Where non-free firmware is found to be necessary, the target system
will also be configured to use the non-free-firmware component by
default in the apt sources.list file.
That doesn't quite say we enable non-free-firmware unconditionally.
Cheers,
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Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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