On Monday 03 April 2006 18:29, Ian Campbell wrote: > Hi all, > > It seems that the IVTV driver packages have been accepted and entered > Debian. Excellent news!
Looks good. > I also see that I have my first bug > report :-( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=360539 "Must > go to contrib: requires non-free (and non-distributable) firmware" > > The logs say it was forwarded to the list (it's registered as the > maintainer address) but I never received it via the list and it isn't in > the archives. Does the BTS need to be whitelisted or similar? You are correct. The list at present is pretty much setup to hold everything it doesn't know about. I can whitelist bugs.. > On the subject of the bug report, I know there is some controversy about > firmware in main etc but I haven't really been following so I don't know > if the project has reached a consensus about what is to be done. Does > anyone know or have any pointers? I don't know that the decision is as > clear cut as the bug suggests and I don't want move stuff around > unnecessarily. > > (FWIW I don't have an opinion myself on where firmware requiring > packages should go, I'll follow the project's policies/guidelines). Well there are some packages, which have firmware dependencies which are in main. But generally that is because they have utility without the firmware. Debian policy is generally the reference: http://www.us.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-contrib As Ivtv pretty much requires the firmware for execution, it should move to contrib I suppose. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
