development tools and non-free drviers

[Michael Shigorin]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 09:54:10PM +0000, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> >On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 11:40:10AM +0200, Michael Shigorin wrote:
> >>Downloading fglrx is quite a pain for people like mentioned
> >>above.
> >fglrx (and the similar driver for nVidia cards) have both been
> >included on Ubuntu CDs in packaged, ready-to-run form for
> >ages.

Hm, didn't know (rather understood that they're not to be
packaged).  Thanks.

> would like us to publish this in -proposed-updates as soon as
> they are available, and if we get no bad reports after a month
> or so, move them to -updates. This way the gamers can get them
> immediately by enabling -proposed-updates, and everyone else
> gets them once we are sure they are safe. How does that sound?

Reasonable.  We use backports for such things.

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