development tools and non-free drviers

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 01:14:24AM +0100, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> On wo, 2006-01-04 at 14:08 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 
> > One way to achieve the goal more simply would be to provide updated drivers
> > in a separate repository which explicitly does not receive security support,
> > allowing users to opt for the updated drivers if they are willing to accept
> > the tradeoff.  The drivers could then be rolled into -security at a later
> > date if they are believed to be appropriate for all users.
> 
> I am currently maintaining a repository for ATI (and madwifi) drivers,
> including some meta packages to match kernel and fglrx driver versions.
> ATI makes this very easy, their installer generates.deb packages and
> works under fakeroot :)
> 
> Especially since only the post-breezy versions of fglrx support
> hibernate, these drivers are quite popular.

Would it be possible to usen the -backports repository instead, by
maintaining this as a package in dapper/universe?

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 - mdz