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Author: Hendrik Boom
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To: dng
Subject: [DNG] Debian is going ahead with non-free-firmware
Just got this on the debian-boot list. It may affect our operations,
though probably not severely.

-- hendrik

On Sat, Jan 09, 2016 at 11:51:08AM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think there was consensus to introduce the non-free-firmware section
> and move the non-free firmware blobs there. I'm wondering what we need
> to do next?
>
> Besides the ftp team setting the new section up, I expect the installer
> would need changes to enable it instead of non-free when non-free
> firmware is required; maybe it still needs to ask for non-free as well
> for other reasons? Other teams might also need to add the new section,
> e.g. the release team, packages.d.o, ... I expect the list to be
> hard-coded in quite a few places.
>
> Then the release notes need to document that "non-free-firmware" might
> have to be added to sources.list.
>
> Finally we need to identify the packages that should move there. I
> guess all non-free packages named "firmware-*" would be a good match.
>
> Ansgar
>