On Sun, Apr 11 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-04-11 at 11:12 -0700, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 11 2010, maximilian attems wrote:
>>
>> > On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 10:13:15AM -0700, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Seriously, I use nvidia non-free drivers as well. I can affirm
>> >> that I can pull from stable, or Linus' tree, and build kernel images
>> >> and nvidia modules. My usual sequence of action is to
>> >>
>> >
>> > yes indeed you lost *all* of my respect, when you were crying out
>> > about firmware issues in linux-2.6, did zero work on it,
>> > and then run an immense blob in ring 0.
>>
>> You seem to mistake what Debian does, and what we support our
>> users doing. Debian should not ship binary blobs. But if users want to
>> do so, we support them.
> [...]
>
> We shouldn't stand in their way but we have no obligation and limited
> ability to support them.
I think we put it as:
,----
| We acknowledge that some of our users require the use of works that do
| not conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines.
|
| <SNIP parts about contrinb and non-free>
|
| Thus, although non-free works are not a part of Debian, we
| support their use and provide infrastructure for non-free
| packages (such as our bug tracking system and mailing lists).
`----
However, I think your statement is reasonable. The level of
support depends on the teams/maintainers. Supporting free software
comes above supporting non-free software.
The kernel team has made their level of commitment
clear, as is proper. Indeed, I don't expect the kernel team to support
either non-debian sources, nor _any_ third party modules, really.
Which is why I directed the user to make-kpkg, which does, to an
extent, supports both.
manoj
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