Re: [GNU-linux-libre] more http://libreplanet.org/wiki?title=NONFSDG stuff

[Karl Goetz]

On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:04:14 +0200
Sam Geeraerts <address@hidden> wrote:

> Karl Goetz schreef:
> > hi all,
> > I've started comparing gNewSense's two blacklists with the NONFSDG
> > [1], and its brought up some questions about the page, and some
> > potential new additions.
> > 
> > [1] http://libreplanet.org/wiki?title=NONFSDG
> > 
> > == Questions ==
> > * Under 'references', should we be including more then one? in the
> > case of 'aee' the page currently links to trisquels. its also gns
> > savannah bug 28950. (This is a bad example, but the point remains).
> > This would allow us to reference NONFSDG instead of each referring
> > to our own bug reports.
> 
> So a distro blacklist refers to NONFSDG and NONFSDG refers to one or
> more bug reports? Sounds good to me.

Thats my plan, now to force it on everyone ;)

> > == Potential Additions ==
> > (Anything not accepted for the list i'll re-enable in gns).
> 
> (snip)
> > libsnmp-base (may not be a real problem, looks like its rfcs)
> >     http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=498475
> > libsmi2-common (may not be a real problem, looks like its rfcs)
> >     http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=498476
> 
> I'm not familiar with MIBs, but it looks like functional data to me.
> The Debian bug report says that some of them need patching, but
> distributing patched files is not allowed. Annoying to say the least,
> not FSDG-free IMO.

Unless there is objections from other distros we might (continue to)
remove them then.

> (snip)
> > Sorry its a big list, but we haven't done a clean out+merge for a
> > while.
> 
> The whole list seems valid to me.

Then we must be doing something right :)
kk

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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer
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