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 -- DeVries' Dilemma: If you hit two keys on the typewriter, the one you don't want hits the paper. Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@acm.org> <http://www.golden-gryphon.com/> 4096R/C5779A1C E37E 5EC5 2A01 DA25 AD20 05B6 CF48 9438 C577 9A1C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87r5mlk7z8....@anzu.internal.golden-gryphon.com