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Verfasst von SirGrant am Sa, 07/14/2012 - 18:31

[GFSD Issue] Package debian-reference references non-free software software repos

Summary: Package debian-reference advises the user that non-free software is a solution to problems.

Versions Used:

Steps to reproduce:

(From the terminal)

  • sudo apt-get install debian-reference
  • debian-reference

(Program opens documentation in browser)

  • Click: HTML (multi files)
  • Click: 9.7.8. Non-free hardware drivers

(Documentation states:)

  • "Although most of hardware drivers are available as free software and as a part of the Debian system, you may need to load some non-free external drivers to support some hardwares, such as Winmodem, on your system."

References:

quidam:
Mi, 06/03/2015 - 04:20

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

aklis:
Mo, 05/11/2015 - 19:21
leny2010:
Sa, 04/25/2015 - 06:26

Fixes for outstanding defects known thus far are now a Merge Request for Toutatis and Belenos

https://devel.trisquel.info/trisquel/package-helpers/merge_requests/80

I will email FSF compliance about dealing with the Debian won't fix for non-free repo references and find out about Debian in general for FSDG bugs to progress the fixes I've identified with them later.

leny2010:
Fr, 03/27/2015 - 06:01

Created Developer Issue https://devel.trisquel.info/leny2010/package-helpers/issues/9 to track my work on this.

leny2010:
Mi, 05/20/2015 - 04:16

The principle problem with debian-reference is it references the use of guaranteed non-GNU FSDG repos. There are only about 50 such mentions in a big book of technical goodness. I'll redo the work for 7.0 -en. Those who write -de -fr -it -ja or -pt will be needed for the other translations of it.

DNS:
So, 02/10/2013 - 01:32

I started to work on a patch on that, but then i was thinking after i made some more changes "does this make sense?"... i mean maybe it makes more sense to remove the complete package since trisquel is not debian and this package seems not to be essential important. If we would make a patch, then it would mean somebody needs to maintain the patch for next releases, so what do you think?

i attached the current (incomplete) patch so you can get an impression.

AnhangGröße
incomplete-debian-reference.patch 16.82 KB
SirGrant:
Mi, 02/06/2013 - 20:52
SirGrant:
Di, 10/30/2012 - 19:48
SirGrant:
So, 10/21/2012 - 09:13

Removing assigned to "upstream" bug will be marked as "wontfix".

They altered the documentation to clarify Debian's position it's contrib and non-free repositories but the issue has not been fixed. The documentation still says they are ok with the use of non-free software and instructs users on how to install non-free repos.

My personal opinion on the matter is that we should remove this package. With the new changes it would take quite a bit of effort to go through and remove the sections which talk about non-free software and we have our own documentation.

SirGrant:
Di, 10/30/2012 - 19:48

Assigning to upstream:

Debian Bug#6846481 (debian-reference instructs users on how to install non-free software)

SirGrant:
So, 07/15/2012 - 09:00