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Re: Firmware



Le samedi 02 mai 2009 à 08:04 +0200, Mike Hommey a écrit :
> On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 12:10:26AM +0200, Joey Schulze wrote:
> > I would rather like to keep binary firmware blobs outside of Debian/main
> > and maintain them in Debian/non-free with improved and easy ways to load
> > them during the installation.

Fully agreed.

> I think this is less of a problem than making sure *existing*
> installations don't break on upgrade because of the lack of some
> firmware blobs after the upgrade.

Fully agreed as well. This should at least be prominent in the release
notes, as some hardware needing this (like radeon cards) is highly
widespread.

-- 
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  `-     future understand things”  -- Jörg Schilling

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