On Tue 02 Mar 2021 at 21:01:09 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 02 Mar 2021 at 23:29:15 (+0000), Brian wrote:
[...] > > > > "+1" for what? Advertising each and every non-Debian installer that > > > > comes along and is uploaded to unofficial? > > I was under the impression that "The Debian Images Team is a small > team of people working on creating, testing and distributing Debian > images for [us]", whereas you seem to be describing something like > a wiki where any Tom, Dick or Harry dumps their cobbled together > installer. Not at all. I specifically had in mind DDs who devise installation images that are uploaded to unofficial. Are these to be advertised alongside what is there now? > > My installer is aimed at users with an adapter that uses the p54usb > > driver. It requires firmware that needs to be extracted from the device > > and there aren't any such files in the non-free archive. I imagine there > > are other similar devices. > > > > I can easlily provide explanatory text about why my installer is needed > > and why it would benefit users. Would it be ok to have it in unofficial > > as a non-Debian installer? > > Extracting firmware from the device itself is something I've never had > to do, and wouldn't know where to get started. That might be the sort > of process to describe in the Firmware wiki, under "Location of > firmware files". > > Having extracted it, the "naive" user might then follow the > instructions in the Installation Guide, of course, and then wonder > why the d-i wouldn't find and load it. This touches on where in the BTS to report a problem with a non-Debian installation image. -- Brian.