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Re: linux-headers-2.6.33-2-amd64 (2.6.33-1~experimental.3) uninstallable



On Sun, 2010-04-11 at 11:12 -0700, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 11 2010, maximilian attems wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 10:13:15AM -0700, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >> 
> >>         Seriously, I use nvidia non-free drivers as well. I can affirm
> >>  that I can pull from stable, or Linus' tree, and build kernel images
> >>  and nvidia modules. My usual sequence of action is to
> >> 
> >
> > yes indeed you lost *all* of my respect, when you were crying out
> > about firmware issues in linux-2.6, did zero work on it,
> > and then run an immense blob in ring 0.
> 
>         You seem to mistake what Debian does, and what we support our
>  users doing.  Debian should not ship binary blobs.  But if users want to
>  do so, we support them.
[...]

We shouldn't stand in their way but we have no obligation and limited
ability to support them.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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