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Re: Adding package to Debian Distro

From Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Adding package to Debian Distro
Date 2024-05-09 17:20 +0200
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On Thu, 9 May 2024 14:09:52 -0000 (UTC)
Curt <curty@free.fr> wrote:

> I don't think there is a process by which you could add closed-source
> IBM software to a bona fide Debian depository, even the non-free one,
> which only seems to contain firmware and drivers for closed-sourced
> *hardware*.

Isn't that what the non-free archive is for?
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive#s-non-free

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Adding package to Debian Distro kiruthikaanbusuresh <kiruthikaanbusuresh@gmail.com> - 2024-05-09 15:10 +0200
  Re: Adding package to Debian Distro "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2024-05-09 15:50 +0200
  Re: Adding package to Debian Distro Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl> - 2024-05-09 16:00 +0200
  Re: Adding package to Debian Distro Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2024-05-09 16:20 +0200
    Re: Adding package to Debian Distro Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2024-05-09 17:20 +0200
      Re: Adding package to Debian Distro Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2024-05-09 18:30 +0200
        Re: Adding package to Debian Distro David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-05-09 21:00 +0200

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