Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> writes: > Okay. So I take it then that you would be against separate packaging > for Linux-Libre for Debian, and prefer instead to apply all its > changes to Debian's Linux?
I know this wasn't addressed to me, but I feel the urge to weigh in. I think the removal of even the ability to load non-free firmware is stupid and self-defeating and certainly don't think that should be done in Debian, in either the main Linux kernel packages or, for that matter, in a separate package. (I'm sure the security team doesn't want to do twice as many kernel security builds just to support that particular exercise.) Whatever other work the Linux-Libre folks, or anyone else for that matter, do to cleanly separate firmware from the Linux kernel (even for free firmware, as far as I'm concerned) seems like a good thing to adopt. As with any other Debian package, the best approach for adoption is to get the patches adopted upstream so that everyone can benefit and we don't have to maintain local divergences. It sounds like Ben Hutchings and the Debian kernel team have been doing great work in this area, and I can only stand and applaud their excellent, constructive resolution of this problem in a way that's consistent with all of our ideals. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
