check for non-free firmware (Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom)
Package: linux-2.6
Severity: wishlist
Please could you add some check in debian/rules to prevent non-free firmware
from inadvertingly entering the linux-2.6 package, as described in the mail
quoted below?
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:29:29AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wednesday 12 September 2007 15:37, Robert Millan wrote:
> > > There isn't any patch that should be required here. There is already a
> > > script in the kernel team repo to be used for pruning non-free firmware
> > > from the tarball, and it appears that whoever produced the initial
> > > uploads of 2.6.21 and 2.6.22 for Debian omitted this step.
> > Why not running this script in debian/rules, causing builds to abort when
> > the non-free files are still present?
>
> Seems like a good idea, except that the script will also fail if upstream
> removes something - I don't know how often this happens though.
>
> I guess this info should be added to some bug, so it does eventually
> happen ;-)
Done.
--
Robert Millan
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