Mark Purcell wrote: > On Monday 03 April 2006 18:29, Ian Campbell wrote: >> 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..
I did indeed receive an "awaits moderator approval" message after submitting the bugreport. Please do whitelist bugs so that submitters don't receive such a message. (Unfortunately, the BTS itself tends to get spammed, but I don't know any way to avoid that.) >> 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. Right. As I understand it, some such packages go in main because they drive various hardware, only some of which requires proprietary firmware; other such packages go in main because they form only a small part of the kernel in main, and thus the entire kernel doesn't need the proprietary firmware. I don't think ivtv falls into either of those categories: as far as I can tell, all ivtv-supported cards require firmware images, so the package doesn't serve any function at all without the firmware. - Josh Triplett
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