Making chocolate-doom free = removing recommended packages?
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The Chocolate Doom package at http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/chocolate-doom is currently sitting in the multiverse repository due to it recommending/suggesting non-free chocolate-heretic, chocolate-hexen, and chocolate-strife packages. In upstream Debian, it has been moved from contrib to main and the package currently for Ubuntu 16.04/Trisquel 8.
Since this is free software and GPLv2, wouldn't removing the those recommendations/suggestions make it free software and can be considered to be added to Trisquel? Like a package helper that takes the source, recompiles it, and creates the .deb file without the recommendations/suggestions to those chocolate packages.
I'm curious if that would be accepted if it was that easy to modify the .deb file.
> Since this is free software and GPLv2, wouldn't removing the those recommendations/suggestions make it free software and can be considered to be added to Trisquel?
*recommendations/suggestions* of non-free or contrib packages (packages B, C, and D) won't exclude a package (package A) from Trisquel repositories. Practically speaking, packages B, C, and D won't be installed because they are not in Trisquel repositories.
> Like a package helper that takes the source, recompiles it, and creates the .deb file without the recommendations/suggestions to those chocolate packages. I'm curious if that would be accepted if it was that easy to modify the .deb file.
That is the basic functionality of a package-helper which are in use at Trisquel (https://devel.trisquel.info/trisquel/package-helpers). It is easy.
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