Bug#916036: Install fwupd on a default installation

Steve McIntyre steve at einval.com
Wed Dec 26 20:57:53 GMT 2018


On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 09:48:15PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Philipp Kern <pkern at debian.org> (2018-12-26):
>> I'm not sure, though, if there is some philosophical objection here in
>> that fwupd downloads non-free blobs and/or that Debian does not actually
>> ship the blobs themselves.
>
>FWIW both parts seem unacceptable to me, esp. in a default installation.

They're not all necessarily non-free, but it's a useful service for
people to make safe firmware updates easy.

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at einval.com
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