Control: tags -1 - moreinfo Control: tags -1 + wontfix thanks This is about https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=686481
I have made major update of debian-reference (DR) in 2012 and 2022 to address this bug report concerns and non-free-firmware. I realized this old bug is still around for my package. Let me reassess this bug. The title of this bug by "SirGrant" is misleading at least for the current DR. DR doesn't instruct *instruct* user to install non-free software. DR only provides information on how to install non-free software. Moreover, current DR explicitly mention in "2.1.6. Debian is 100% free software" https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_debian_is_100_free_software as: Users should be aware of the risks of using packages in the non-free, non-free- firmware and contrib areas: * lack of freedom for such software packages * lack of support from Debian on such software packages (Debian can't support software properly without having access to its source code.) * contamination of your 100% free Debian system So I think I am respectful for people not wishing to get close to non-free. My message was a bit ambiguous in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=686481#20 . What I meant was I am happy to accept practical path for technical measures on DR (not Debian Policy) which enable to keep quiet on even mentioning non-free in DR as an optional build feature for particular distribution. After 10+ years, no productive proposal nor discussion has happened on this direction. Also, in light of Debian CD including non-free-firmware these days, I think that the level of *mention* in DR is appropriate. So I can close this bug but for avoiding future repeat of this discussion, I decided to keep this bug but with changing this bug tag from moreinfo to wontfix. Regards, Osamu PS: I am CCing people who participated on this bug. I intentinally excluded list address.
