-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Today while working on one of my Debian systems, I realized that Debian ships a program called kPovModeler, which is Free Software. This program is distributed as a part of the K Desktop Environment, in the kdegraphics package. So, installing the KDE meta package will pull this piece of software in too.
What's wrong with this? kPovModeler is a frontend to PovRay, which is non-Free software. Without PovRay, kPovModeler does absolutely nothing functional. I'm concerned that by tying this package into a commonly installed metapackage (kde installs kdegraphics, which installs kPovModeler) we silently support non-Free software. On a more practical side, supporting this package is a waste of time, disk space and potential manpower when it does nothing without the non-Free backend. I've edited the kdegraphics .deb package in the repos as of about 5 AM GMT and used that to produce the .diff.gz and dsc file that should replace the ones currently there. The kdegraphics.orig.tar.gz was not edited directly, and should not need to be touched at all. Both the .dsc and the diff.gz file can be found here: http://www.foreverdean.info/kevin/patches/kdegraphics/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGBjXKjbEXCxKVc6YRAifZAJ9ptMvhB3YNvW6bwDZj52EOpiYFqwCgkRPz P+Czl9BVyeBQPAMXpOGKCd8= =Xzvl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
