[Pkg-mythtv-maintainers] bugs.debian.org forwarding the pkg-mythtv-maintainers list

[Mark Purcell]

On Monday 03 April 2006 18:29, Ian Campbell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> It seems that the IVTV driver packages have been accepted and entered
> Debian. Excellent news!

Looks good.

> I also see that I have my first bug
> report :-( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=360539 "Must
> go to contrib: requires non-free (and non-distributable) firmware"
>
> The logs say it was forwarded to the list (it's registered as the
> maintainer address) but I never received it via the list and it isn't in
> the archives. Does the BTS need to be whitelisted or similar?

You are correct.  The list at present is pretty much setup to hold everything 
it doesn't know about.  I can whitelist bugs..

> On the subject of the bug report, I know there is some controversy about
> firmware in main etc but I haven't really been following so I don't know
> if the project has reached a consensus about what is to be done. Does
> anyone know or have any pointers? I don't know that the decision is as
> clear cut as the bug suggests and I don't want move stuff around
> unnecessarily.
>
> (FWIW I don't have an opinion myself on where firmware requiring
> packages should go, I'll follow the project's policies/guidelines).

Well there are some packages, which have firmware dependencies which are in 
main. But generally that is because they have utility without the firmware.

Debian policy is generally the reference:
http://www.us.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-contrib

As Ivtv pretty much requires the firmware for execution, it should move to 
contrib I suppose.

Mark