I believe this is due to a simplistic handling of "freeness" in
UbuntuDrivers.detect._is_package_free() – any package not from
restricted or multiverse is considered free:
# it would be better to check the actual license, as we do not have
# the component for third-party packages; but this is the best we can do
# at the moment
if pkg.candidate.section.startswith('restricted') or \
pkg.candidate.section.startswith('multiverse'):
return False
return True
Possibly it would be better to do the logic the other way around ("if
it's in main/universe/whatever, then it's free, otherwise it's
nonfree"), but really a better solution is needed.
However, I notice that the Nvidia drivers on my system are from section
"non-free/libs" – the following patch fixes the problem for me:
--- a/UbuntuDrivers/detect.py 2019-01-10 02:30:54.326668673 +0000
+++ b/UbuntuDrivers/detect.py 2019-01-10 02:36:24.707733516 +0000
@@ -165,7 +165,8 @@
# the component for third-party packages; but this is the best we can do
# at the moment
if pkg.candidate.section.startswith('restricted') or \
- pkg.candidate.section.startswith('multiverse'):
+ pkg.candidate.section.startswith('multiverse') or \
+ pkg.candidate.section.startswith('non-free'):
return False
return True
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1514057
Title:
Incorrect(?) reporting of freeness of third-party nVidia drivers from
graphic-drivers PPA
Status in ubuntu-drivers-common package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
pumpkin@pumpkin:~/4788.5236.la$ sudo ubuntu-drivers devices
== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/0000:03:00.0 ==
modalias : pci:v000010DEd00001080sv000010B0sd00000401bc03sc00i00
model : GF110 [GeForce GTX 580]
vendor : NVIDIA Corporation
driver : nvidia-340-updates - distro non-free
driver : nvidia-352-updates - distro non-free
driver : nvidia-355 - third-party free recommended
driver : nvidia-352 - third-party free
driver : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin
driver : nvidia-340 - distro non-free
driver : nvidia-304-updates - distro non-free
driver : nvidia-304 - distro non-free
I have some difficulty believing that nvidia-352 is free and
nvidia-352-updates non-free; I would have thought nvidia-352 and
nvidia-355 are both third-party non-free.
it is possible this is the result of having some extra PPAs installed:
pumpkin@pumpkin:~/4788.5236.la$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-355
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Recommended packages:
libcuda1-355 nvidia-opencl-icd-355
The following packages will be upgraded:
nvidia-355
1 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 19 not to upgrade.
Need to get 58.6 MB of archives.
After this operation, 3,072 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu/ wily/main
nvidia-355 amd64 355.11-0ubuntu0~gpu15.10.2 [58.6 MB]
So maybe this is a matter of package status being marked up
incorrectly in the PPA?
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