On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 20:39 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > Mark Purcell wrote: > > On Monday 03 April 2006 18:29, Ian Campbell wrote: > >> (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.
OK. I've committed change needed to do the move to the svn repo. Ian. -- Ian Campbell To see you is to sympathize.
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