Re: [GNU-linux-libre] DSFG in perpetuity

[Zlatan Todoric]

[CC'ing Chris so he can elaborate on this. Side note, he and few other
Purism folks are at LibrePlanet]


On 03/26/2018 12:58 PM, bill-auger wrote:
> On 03/25/2018 05:58 AM, Zlatan Todoric wrote:
>> Debian kernel itself is entirely free but there was issues with messages
>> that was brought to us and we worked on it both in PureOS and Debian at
>> same time.
>>
>> https://tracker.pureos.net/T362
>
> i am curious about this - i thought about tackling it myself at one
> point but i was told that it is a very difficult problem to fix - the
> work you point took one day - if it were so easy i would have hoped this
> would have been fixed many years ago
>
> i found it difficult to learn exactly what you guys did though - this is
> what i could determine:
>
> * todd opened an issue named "firmware binary warning should not appear
> for non-free binaries"
> * a few hours later chris said (paraphrasing) "i dont think debian will
> take this"
> * he instead offered a patch that removed nothing but added the URL to a
> debian wiki page to the log warning
> * the next day the issue was closed with: "chris.lamb closed this task
> as "Resolved". Fixed in initramfs-tools_0.130pureos1"
>
> how exactly was this issue resolved? the issue title seems spot on but
> that patch does not even attempt to address the FSDG issue of the blob
> name - it is exactly the solution the connochaetos proposed last august
> that was not accepted[1] and the review of connochaetos essentially
> halted at that point
>
> the 'pureos1' on the end of the package name conventionally indicates
> that the downstream has modified the upstream package - but there was no
> patch attached to the issue and the pureos website does not indicate any
> dedicated section for code review nor version control so it is not at
> all clear that pureos added anything to that package on that day
>
> it seems the only way to find this is in the deb repo - but that only
> has the most recent version of each package and
> initramfs-tools_0.130pureos2 has already clobbered
> initramfs-tools_0.130pureos1 - is there any way i (or anyone) could see
> what actually changed in that package when chris declared "i fixed it"?
>
> or could you just tell us what did chris actually fix?
> * "firmware binary warning should not appear for non-free binaries"
>
> or the debian patch:
> * "add a link to the https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware to 'firmware:
> failed to load' log messages"
>
>
>
> [1]:
> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnu-linux-libre/2017-08/msg00039.html
>

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