On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 08:18:55AM -0700, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > Hi Bart, > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 10:12:48AM +0200, Bart Martens wrote: > > The Debian project is permitted to make distribution media (installer images > > and live images) containing packages from the non-free section of the Debian > > archive available for download alongside with the free media in a way that > > the > > user is informed before downloading which media are the free ones. > > Do you mean that official or unofficial media can contain packages from > non-free? > > If you mean official media, this is more radical than Steve's proposal. > It would permit arbitrary non-free packages as long as users were > informed. > > If you mean unofficial media - that's the status quo. In which case, > this option is the same as Simon's and none of the above. > > Ross >
/packages from the non-free *firmware* section/ This is _only_ firmware and not arbitrary non-free packages. It's not drivers per se. The "official" and "unofficial" media are currently prepared by the same team on the same machines. The "unofficial" media contains non-free firmware (and drivers of all sorts, potentially, that go wider than firmware). IMHO, they're both official - one is free + free firmware, one is free+non-free firmware. Steve's proposal is strictly limited to firmware, here, and there is a separate non-free firmware portion of the archive that was created at Debconf22 in Pristina. All best, as ever, Andy Cater