On Thu, 19 Jul 2012, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > tag 681735 + wontfix > thanks > > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <h...@debian.org> writes: > > intel-microcode provides updated microcode to Intel processors, and > > should ideally be installed by default on every system with an Intel > > processor. Unfortunately, it is non-free, but its priority should still > > reflect the fact that it should be installed by default in a system. > > I do not think we should make non-free packages part of the default > installation. After all Debian promises that the Debian system and all > its components will be free.
Hmm? It is in non-free. It would be in the default non-free installation (if such a thing existed. AFAIK it doesn't), not Debian's. > Also Priority: standard doesn't seem appropriate for a package that is > only useful for a subset of machines. A better solution might be a I never asked it to be priority required or important, and it is arch-specific, so it actually is useful to a large subset of the machines that might install it (all amd-based boxes not running up-to-date microcode, which should be quite a large fraction of them, given how new the latest microcode patches are, how often people upgrade firmware, and the fact that most (all?) recent AMD processors have been issued microcode patches). The situation for Intel is about the same, as well. Most Intel processors have been issued microcode updates, vendors and people are just as bad at updating firmware, and there are recent microcode updates for very recent Intel processors, fixing widely-used features (such as perf counters). > prompt in d-i (defaulting to No), similar to the one asking for non-free > firmware which I believe already exists. Maybe it could even be > integrated in said prompt. That would be effective, yes, if we also add a note about the availability of amd64-microcode and intel-microcode packages to the non-free release notes for Wheezy. Thank you for the idea. Anyway, I did my job, which was to ask for the priority raise. You don't agree, and I'm fine with that. The fact that the package is available for those who need it is far more important :-) -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
