Re: status of 2.6.7 ? (Was Re: Bug#256763: kernel-image-2.6.6-i386: not ready for sarge just yet)
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 11:27:21PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 11:28:39PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Well, there was a syntactic social contract GR which slyly passed the
> > more important decision that all stuff in debian is now software,
> > including documentation and data. This meant that all the GFDL software
> > was now considered non-free, and should be removed from debian before
> > the saarge release. The Release Manager claimed that this would take a
> > long time, and that he could not iun concience make the release in the
> > time he was planning with this.
> >
> > There was a new vote, which ended on july 2, in which we decided to
> > waive the requirement of dropping all GNU documetnation until after the
> > sarge release, so it is again possible to release sarge on the old
> > schedule (or lack thereof), which also means that the sarge release will
> > heppen rather sooner than later, hopefully this summer.
> >
> > For more info, read the debian-vote mailing lists archive.
> >
> > And welcome to debian politics :)
>
> Hmm, I wonder what this means for the firmware blob issues..
Firmware is software, they can't be considered as data or documentation
by any stretch of the imagination, so they still need to go, i think.
Friendly,
Svne Luther
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