On Wed 03 Mar 2021 at 10:36:42 (-0500), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tuesday, March 02, 2021 10:01:09 PM David Wright wrote:
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. > > Well, until and unless some person or group tries to vet those Debian > installation images, that may be the best that can be done. You cut the context. They wouldn't be "Debian installation images", but "non-Debian installers", as quoted above. I don't want non-Debian installers on cdimage.debian.org, official or unofficial. Do bear in mind that the debian-installer in the official image is the same debian-installer as in the unofficial image. The latter image just contains some extra files, almost all of which originate from the kernel team or Debian. What I did suggest go into a wiki was the *method* of extracting firmware from a particular driver. I notice that there is already one fwcutter in my unofficial image (for Broadcom B54xx), but I don't know how it works, nor whether it works in the same way as one for the p54usb would. > It would be nicer if there was some person or group that tried to vet them, > or > maybe even suggesting that something like a requirement that at least one > other person attest that an installation image worked for them (on the target > hardware). AIUI the Debian Install System Team build the Debian installer, and the aforementioned Debian Images Team put it into the unofficial images, along with some extra .debs and a couple of Packages files. So I'm not sure I understand exactly what this person/group would be expected to vet. Cheers, David.