| Proyecto: | Trisquel |
| Versión: | 7.0 |
| Componente: | Documentation |
| Categoría: | informe de fallo |
| Prioridad: | blocking |
| Asignado: | leny2010 |
| Estado: | closed |
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:
Assigning to upstream:
Debian Bug#6846481 (debian-reference instructs users on how to install non-free software)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.
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.
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.
Created Developer Issue https://devel.trisquel.info/leny2010/package-helpers/issues/9 to track my work on this.
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.
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.