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Bug#301613: kernel-source-2.6.11: NEWS.Debian missing



reopen 301613
thanks

On 31 Mar 2005, Horms <horms@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 01:19:18AM -0500, Philipp Weis wrote:
> > Package: kernel-source-2.6.11
> > Version: 2.6.11-1
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > I was quite surprised to see that Broadcom tg3 card is no longer
> > supported in 2.6.11. I thought the driver was free except for the
> > optional firmware?
> > 
> > Anyways, I found the following paragraph in the changelog, but I
> > cannot find the file NEWS.Debian it refers to. At least it's not in
> > /usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.6.11 where I would expect it to be.
> > 
> > | Drop prune-non-free, add NEWS.Debian to document the dropping
> > | of the tg3 driver, and the existence of kernel-nonfree-*
> > | (Andres Salomon).
> 
> This has now been fixed in SVN and should appear in the next release.
> For reference, here is the text of the file.

The changelog of 2.6.11-2 claims that this problem is resolved, but I
still don't have a NEWS.Debian on my system. Am I looking at the wrong
place?

Also, kernel-nonfree-source-2.6.11 does not seem to be available as of
now. Is this planned for inclusion? Maybe NEWS.Debian should say so.


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Philipp Weis    pweis@pweis.com    http://pweis.com/

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