On Sat, 28 Jan 2023 19:05:39 +0000 "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amaca...@einval.com> wrote:
> This all follows on the General Resolution a while ago. Right. I looked at the page to which Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> referred. https://www.debian.org/vote/2022/vote_003 Some of the proposals explicitly required the installer to do so. However, I am not familiar enough with Debian processes to determine which language was approved, so I could not determine the answer to my question. > If you are making a wholly new install, I suspect that the change > will be made for you if the need for non-free firmware is detected > AND the non-free firmware is installed as part of the building > process AND you opt to keep the non-free firmware installed that the > installer installed as part of the bootstrap process. That sounds like a good way to go. > > Bearing in mind that the IRC channels #debian-boot and #debian-cd are > both showing significant activity at the moment as you might expect. Ah, then I shall await their decision. > If you dist-upgrade from bullseye, I suspect it's down to you to check > that the sources lines are correct which is not unusual. As I would expect. I would hesitate to automate that, even for my few machines. I will, however, make a note where I will find it when the time comes. > > Very happy indeed to be proved wrong if we can automate more in due > course :) :-) Thank you for that clarification. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
