Re: Automatic downloading of non-free software by stuff in main

2017-12-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud writes ("Re: Automatic downloading of non-free software by stuff in main"): > Le jeudi, 30 novembre 2017, 18.54:32 h CET Ian Jackson a écrit : > > [1] The GR would require a 2:3 supermajority because the TC abandoned > > my efforts to re

Re: Automatic downloading of non-free software by stuff in main

2017-12-05 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le jeudi, 30 novembre 2017, 18.54:32 h CET Ian Jackson a écrit : > [1] The GR would require a 2:3 supermajority because the TC abandoned > my efforts to reform the bugs in its constitutional foundations, when > I left the TC. These don't need to be carried by the TC. It's "nice" if the TC kept in

Re: Automatic downloading of non-free software by stuff in main

2017-12-05 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 05 Dec 2017 at 14:50:00 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > I appreciate that the configuration I am describing is quite fierce. > Many people would hate it. I wouldn't use it myself. It shouldn't be > the default. Then why are you suggesting that the project should consider using release-critic

Re: Automatic downloading of non-free software by stuff in main

2017-12-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Anthony DeRobertis writes ("Re: Automatic downloading of non-free software by stuff in main"): > Ok, let's take an example: how should Firefox (or Chromium) behave > differently if the free-only flag is set? The minimum implementation IMO is: the "addons" menu is

Re: Automatic downloading of non-free software by stuff in main

2017-12-02 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On 11/30/2017 12:31 PM, Josh Triplett wrote: - For the sake of avoiding ambiguity, an interpreter for file formats or network protocols that include software, such as scripts, may consider the user browsing to a site or opening a file as "user interaction" for the purposes of processing

Re: Automatic downloading of non-free software by stuff in main

2017-12-02 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On 11/30/2017 08:52 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: [...] But the overall result is that a user who wants to use Free software can be steered by Debian into installing and using non-free software, sometimes unwittingly, I would like to establish a way to prevent this. I think the ideal way would be if

Re: Automatic downloading of non-free software by stuff in main

2017-12-01 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 30 Nov 2017 at 09:31:57 -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > Ian Jackson wrote: > > The obvious example is web browsers with extension repositories > > containing both free and non-free software. Another example that seems obvious in the context of Debian is libapt frontends. Like a web browser

Re: Automatic downloading of non-free software by stuff in main

2017-11-30 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 01:52:18PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Over the years, d-legal has discussed a number of packages which > automatically download non-free software, under some circumstances. > > The obvious example is web browsers with extension repositories > containing both free and non-f

Re: Automatic downloading of non-free software by stuff in main

2017-11-30 Thread Josh Triplett
Ian Jackson wrote: > If there is a core implementation needed (eg a library which parses a > standard config location or soemthing), I expect to to write it. I sincerely hope we can avoid needing to develop some new infrastructure or library here, since any such mechanism would almost certainly in

Re: Automatic downloading of non-free software by stuff in main

2017-11-30 Thread Josh Triplett
On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 06:54:32PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Josh Triplett writes ("Re: Automatic downloading of non-free software by > stuff in main"): > > - Packages in main must not point the user to specific non-free or > > contrib software and recommend it

Re: Automatic downloading of non-free software by stuff in main

2017-11-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Josh Triplett writes ("Re: Automatic downloading of non-free software by stuff in main"): > - Packages in main must not point the user to specific non-free or > contrib software and recommend its installation, I agree with this as a goal for at least some configuration setting

Re: Automatic downloading of non-free software by stuff in main

2017-11-30 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 06:40:46PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > I would like to establish a way to prevent this. > > Why would the project do that, though? > > Because... > > > > We should aim for most of the changes necessary for > > > such derivatives to be in Debian proper, so the derivati

Re: Automatic downloading of non-free software by stuff in main

2017-11-30 Thread Ian Jackson
(dropping the profligacy of lists) Andrey Rahmatullin writes ("Re: Automatic downloading of non-free software by stuff in main"): > On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 01:52:18PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > I would like to establish a way to prevent this. > Why would the project do

Re: Automatic downloading of non-free software by stuff in main

2017-11-30 Thread Josh Triplett
Ian Jackson wrote: > Over the years, d-legal has discussed a number of packages which > automatically download non-free software, under some circumstances. > > The obvious example is web browsers with extension repositories > containing both free and non-free software. > > We have also recently d

Re: Automatic downloading of non-free software by stuff in main

2017-11-30 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 01:52:18PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > I would like to establish a way to prevent this. Why would the project do that, though? > (There are even whole Debian derivatives who have as one of their > primary goals, preventing this. Good. > We should aim for most of the chang

Automatic downloading of non-free software by stuff in main

2017-11-30 Thread Ian Jackson
This mail is going to a lot of lists. I have set the followups to d-policy because ultimately this is hopefully going to result in a change to policy. Over the years, d-legal has discussed a number of packages which automatically download non-free software, under some circumstances. The obvious