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Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?



On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 05:08:57PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 06, 2022 at 05:13:22PM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote:
> > Maybe and idea would to do something like isa-support does for e.g sseX-support
> > on CPUs that does not have that feature: It fails on installation with an debconf message, IIRC.
> > So that would allow something like "new package" | "you-need-to-enable-nonfree-firmware-reminder-package"
> > 
> Failing on installation is a terrible user experience, let's not, pretty
> please.

I'd prefer failing loudly to failing silently.
 
> Cheers,
> Julien


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