Kernel 2.6.36 and libraw1394 2.0.6 wrt Firewire Audio Devices

Fabian Greffrath fabian at greffrath.com
Tue Nov 23 08:32:51 UTC 2010


Am 22.11.2010 20:06, schrieb Adrian Knoth:
> Anyway, there's still the code, and we can at least try and compile on
> our own. Like chromium-browser or openoffice: Debian provides
> self-compiled versions, but the user is always free to pick up the
> upstream provided one.

Well, I consider it one of the basic principles of FLOSS in general 
and especially Debian that software packages are recompiled from their 
source code. If the source is not available, the software could hardly 
be called free and if the source does not compile, there are bugs 
either in the software itself or in Debian's toolchain that need to be 
fixed.

I just wanted to get this statements right, although I am sure you all 
knew this already. ;)

  - Fabian



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