On Oct 11, Evan Prodromou <evan@debian.org> wrote: > > I think it's a question of what "dependence" means for contrib. If the > > >driver absolutely _depends_ on using the non-free firmware, it should be > > >in contrib. If the non-free firmware is optional, it should go into > > >main. > > Again, please explain which part of the policy defines this criteria. > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-contrib I still cannot see anything in policy which would support the above statement. Can you make your reasoning explicit? > > This applies to almost every driver in the Linux kernel. Are you ready > > to move most of the kernel to non-free too? > I'd probably dispute whether it's _every_ driver in the kernel, and it's > not my decision, but as I understand it that's exactly what we're doing. So you understand that we will remove from the kernel e.g. ide-cd and the ACPI subsystem? This does not appears to be correct to me. -- ciao, | Marco | [8494 inqrUeKSSNzr2]
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