Debian repository

[Matt Domsch]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 06:07:45PM +0100, Giddings, Bret wrote:
> On the back of this - is there any likelihood that Debian might be
> supported anytime soon. If not, is there anything debian users can
> actively do to help make is available?

Users?  Less so.  Debian Developers, sure. :-)

We already have the tools to generate BIOS updates as debs.  Those are
posted in an apt-ftparchive at linux.dell.com/repo/.  Ubuntu has
firmware-addon-dell, firmware-tools, firmware-extract, dell-dup, and
maybe other related packages.  Debian and Ubuntu both have libsmbios
thanks to José Luis Tallón.

A DD (or someone willing to run the gauntlet and then find a DD to
sponsor the upload) needs to look at these packages in Ubuntu and do
what's needed to put them into Debian.  We don't have any DDs on
staff, but we do have an Ubuntu MOTU, and Fedora packagers.  If you're
a DD and are interested in helping, we'd appreciate it.


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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux