Megint előjött a téma, hogy mi is legyen a Dabian Etch esetén a firmware-ekkel. Ez valahogy mindig release előtt jön elő. Gyorsan rendeztek is egy szavazát. Az eredményeket Anthony Towns postázta a debian-vote listára:
What is the most important for the release of Etch? (202 votes) [0]
Release on time (early december) 57%
Support hardware that requires sourceless firmware 26%
Do not ship sourceless firmware in main 15%
Since it appears Debian has to make a choice, which would you
prefer we do for etch? (197 votes) [1]
Allow sourceless firmware in main 63%
Delay the release of etch (so that we can support 18%
loading firmware from non-free)
Drop support for hardware which requires sourceless 17%
firmware