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Re: debconf 5



* dann frazier wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 17:38 -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> > I'm planning on attending.
> 
> I plan to attend, but I'm not sure I will

Same for me.

> > Didn't previously think about giving a talk, but I am now...
> 
> Cool.  To brainstorm on some topics, I was thinking about quickly
> starting with some basics.  This is kinda user-level, but I didn't
> understand it myself until I started maintaining a kernel.
> 
>       * kernel-tree - what it is, and how to use it
>       * ABI numbers - so that's what that funky number means
>       * -latest packages - what they are (track testing, not sid, etc)

Maybe we should also explain how to build additional modules for our
precompiled kernel-images. This seems to be a bit confusing for most
users, I got asked about that quite often.

> And fight really hard to avoid having this talk turn into a non-free
> firmware talk; I'd like to blacklist that topic from this BOF
> (assuming we only have an hour) maybe by making a BOF out of it
> (with metal detectors at the door).

Agreed.

Norbert



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