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Re: [tlug] Debian rant



> If you don't mind me asking, Is it the packaging that causes issues or one-off compiling issues?

It just the packaging seems an unnecessary hassle for really no gain.
We haven't hit compiling issue yet.  I'm just worried about it being
maintained.

 > What annoys me is the endless great debate over what exactly "free"
means and all of the energy, from a lot of very intelligent people,
that goes into that.

Well I got bit by Android not having open src for bluetooth stuff, so
I appreciate the concern.  Still with GPL source and a GNU toolchain
available to build it, I don't know why we should have to maintain the
firmware build system in a Debian package. If we had to do that for
all other systems ...


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