Bug#360539: [Pkg-mythtv-maintainers] bugs.debian.org forwarding the pkg-mythtv-maintainers list

[Ian Campbell]

On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 20:39 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> Mark Purcell wrote:
> > On Monday 03 April 2006 18:29, Ian Campbell wrote:
> >> (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.
> 
> Right.  As I understand it, some such packages go in main because they
> drive various hardware, only some of which requires proprietary
> firmware; other such packages go in main because they form only a small
> part of the kernel in main, and thus the entire kernel doesn't need the
> proprietary firmware.  I don't think ivtv falls into either of those
> categories: as far as I can tell, all ivtv-supported cards require
> firmware images, so the package doesn't serve any function at all
> without the firmware.

OK. I've committed change needed to do the move to the svn repo.

Ian.
-- 
Ian Campbell

To see you is to sympathize.
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