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has caused the Debian Bug report #364971,
regarding vrms: reports GFDL package autoconf-doc
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Package: vrms
Version: 1.11
Severity: normal
Since vrms's purpose is (I presume) to emulate the real RMS, and since the
latter
clearly approves of GFDL including invariant sections and considers such
documentation free, vrms should not report GFDL documentation packages as
non-free
notwithstanding their Debian status. There should be three cases:
1/ no non-free packages installed - report as before.
2/ some non-free packages other than GFDL documentation packages - report as
before.
3/ some GFDL documentation packages installed, but no other non-free packages.
In this case the report should note the presence of GFDL packages, but otherwise
it should be similar to case 1/, including "RMS would be proud of you".
:-)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-8custom1
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages vrms depends on:
ii perl-modules 5.8.8-4 Core Perl modules
vrms recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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The purpose of vrms is to identify packages Debian makes available in the
non-free and contrib distributions. The fact that this boundary may no longer
precisely match the boundary of freedom that RMS espouses is not a bug in the
vrms program, per se.
Bdale
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