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author | Michał Masłowski <mtjm@mtjm.eu> | 2014-03-29 21:21:32 +0100 |
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committer | Michał Masłowski <mtjm@mtjm.eu> | 2014-03-29 21:21:32 +0100 |
commit | e57f5c0980c98d011060a6372e376bc7b7bee608 (patch) | |
tree | cfa12a42df57372389cde11c70d191df3e44ab7e /SYNTAX | |
parent | a8ba56d69cdeaa0ca54c300f012324642178c8c2 (diff) | |
parent | 3092df2f6a7672354f933a4eb74499b79fdf4ef9 (diff) |
Merge branch 'ref-and-id'
Copied new entries from master blacklist.txt.
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blacklist.txt
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@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +The *blacklist.txt files consist of lines in the following format: + + original-package:libre-replacement:ref:id:description + +original-package is Arch binary package name, libre-replacement is the +-libre package that provides and replaces the original-package or +empty if there is no compatible replacement. + +ref is described by the following table: + + debian: &debian http://bugs.debian.org/ + fsf: &fsf http://libreplanet.org/wiki/List_of_software_that_does_not_respect_the_Free_System_Distribution_Guidelines# + savannah: &sv https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/? + fedora: &fedora https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id= + parabola: ¶bola https://labs.parabola.nu/issues/ + +Use the value after & as the ref column value, the URL pointed by it and +concatenated with the id field should point to an issue +reporting/describing the reason for the package being blacklisted. + +We should prefer fsf refs, since they are easily available for other +distros. Hopefully some lines will move from parabola:X to fsf:Y with +the LibrePlanet wiki linking to the X issue on labs.parabola.nu. + +To make reporting issues to gnu-linux-libre easier, we should explain +in the description if the package is blacklisted due to an upstream FSDG +issue, problem introduced by Arch (e.g. not including required license +text, adding optional dependency on a nonfree package), or just +branding, dependency or non-freedom-related issues which don't need +reporting to other distros. |