Re: Debian hardware support and enablement for newer devices (was ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux)
On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 12:26:12PM +0200, Ansgar wrote:
> > > As a project, how can we improve the current entry level to new
> > > companies wanting support for their devices?
> >
> > Is the backports archive not sufficient for this? I see it doesn't
> > contain mesa backports at this point and probably other hardware
> > enablement, but that could be fixed.
>
> I wouldn't recommend enabling backports by default for pre-installed
> systems as using backports is something a bit fiddly (temporarily
> uninstallable packages, sometimes extra pinning to pull in additional
> packages or manual intervention is needed, ...).
Not only that, but without proper security support it would be
irresponsible to ship a kernel from backports by default. If we're
going to encourage hardware vendors to ship packages from backports
pre-installed, we need to ensure that it gets the same level of security
support as stable. That means support from a team that his visibility
into embargoed issues and can publish DSAs to debian-security-announce
on the day of a vulnerability disclosure. We can't wait for a package
to enter testing and then be backported, and we can't treat backports as
a second-class citizen from an infrastructure perspective.
noah
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