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Re: call for seconds: on firmware



This one time, at band camp, Adeodato Simó said:
> * Manoj Srivastava [Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:38:56 -0600]:
> 
> >         That does not seem to make sense. Either you have
> >   'none of this non-free crap in the archive ever'
> >       or you have
> >   'the release team downgrades these bugs and includes non-free crap'
> 
> >         Not both.
> 
> >         Which is why they are on the same ballot.
> 
> How does one vote, "I want the Release Team to have freedom to use
> <suite>-ignore tags, plus I want to allow firmware in main independently
> of what the Release Team thinks"?
> 
> How does one vote, "I want the Release Team to have freedom to use
> <suite>-ignore tags, plus I want Lenny not to be blocked by firmware
> issues even if the Release teams changes their mind and remove the
> lenny-ignore tags"?

Or the vote that I suspect would be a reasonably common one if the vote
allowed it: 
"I don't want firmware in main, but I want the Release Team to have the
freedom to allow it for Lenny".

Which was really the starting point of this whole round of proposals.
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