Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Talking about non-free software on the list

[Bob Ham]

On 2013-03-06 08:00, MJ Ray wrote:
> Bob Ham <address@hidden>
> > On 2013-03-04 15:43, MJ Ray wrote:
> > > Bob Ham <address@hidden>
> > >> In section 6.4.1 of the Installation Guide is the following:
> > >> "Tarballs and zip files containing current packages for the most
> > >> common
> > >> firmware are available from:
> > >>      
> > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware/
> >
> > > what's the bug here or what's a possible fix?
> >
> > A possible fix would be to remove the non-free firmware files from 
> > the
> > .zip/.tar.gz archive files pointed to by that URL and then relocate
> > those archive files to a different directory on cdimage.debian.org,
> > outside of cdimage/unofficial/non-free.
>
> Sorry, I'm really not seeing what bug exists in the original location

The bug is that the documentation contains instructions on installing 
non-free firmware.  The non-free firmware is contained within the 
.zip/.tar.gz archive files at that location.

--
Bob Ham <address@hidden>

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