Thanks Steve, it's really great you've taken this topic on, much kudos. On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 08:58:21PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > ================================= > > We will include non-free firmware packages from the > "non-free-firmware" section of the Debian archive on our official > media (installer images and live images). The included firmware > binaries will *normally* be enabled by default where the system > determines that they are required, but where possible we will include > ways for users to disable this at boot (boot menu option, kernel > command line etc.). > > When the installer/live system is running we will provide information > to the user about what firmware has been loaded (both free and > non-free), and we will also store that information on the target > system such that users will be able to find it later. The target > system will *also* be configured to use the non-free-firmware > component by default in the apt sources.list file. Our users should > receive security updates and important fixes to firmware binaries just > like any other installed software. > > We will publish these images as official Debian media, replacing the > current media sets that do not include non-free firmware packages. > > ================================= Seconded. As a potential tweak: The text says that we will include ways to disable this at *boot time*; how about being explicit that we will provide ways to disable at *installation time* too? Arguably this is implied by '[t]he target system will *also* be configured to use the non-free-firmware component _by default_ …' already but I think we could stand to be more concrete about that. Cheers, -- Iain Lane [ iain@orangesquash.org.uk ] Debian Developer [ laney@debian.org ] Ubuntu Developer [ laney@ubuntu.com ]
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