On 15.01.21 13:42, Ansgar wrote: > On Tue, 2021-01-12 at 19:30 +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: >> Ah, yes I also wonder how much the world will improve >> if non-free would be split in non-free and non-free-firmware. >> Currently is non free firmware a hugh promoter of non-free in >> /etc/apt/sources.list > > I proposed moving non-free firmware to a new non-free-firmware some > time ago[1], but then it seemed like there was no consensus on this > which I though we had before. Some people wanted non-free/firmware > instead (different name), wanted packages to start appearing in > multiple components (non-free and non-free[/-]firmware), wanted > additional categories (e.g. non-free/doc for Free Software Foundation > stuff), wanted non-free drivers as well, wanted major changes how > components work (which might imply incompatible changes for mirroring > tools and so on), ...
I idly wonder if we could call it firmware and call it a day. I tried to propose that a bunch of times and was not successful either (e.g. it was unclear to me if that needed a GR). I guess better non-free filtering would not be a bad idea, though. For the buildd network it is also still an unsolved question how to allow build-depending on a (small, allowlisted) subset of non-free. Kind regards Philipp Kern
