EOn 2026-01-29 10:06:32, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > On 2026-01-28 21:20:20, Manuel Guerra wrote: >> I think I am ready to turn this Ventoy ITP into an RFP. > > Also, I'd say that, if an effort to package software for Debian results > in the project finding said software is simply not compatible with our > policies and should not be packaged, the ITP should not be turned into > an RFP... > > ... it should be closed. Plenty of software doesn't belong in Debian, > and shady, weird, non-free stuff certainly classifies as this and it's > perfectly fine to close this issue with such a reasoning!
Besides, there are (free-er?) alternatives to ventoy. Here's an overview: - Arch Linux has instructions on how to setup a key by hand in https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Multiboot_USB_drive It also lists a few alternatives (including ventoy, which seems packaged in Arch) - glim is probably the simplest and free-est I could find: https://github.com/thias/glim It's essentially a collection of preconfigured grub scripts that will load predefined ISO images from disk. Minimal bash script, easy to audit, could probably be packaged as is. - MultiOS-USB is also packaged in Arch, and seems similar to ventoy in design, if not a little simpler: https://github.com/Mexit/MultiOS-USB It seems to share ventoy's problems of shipping binaries in its git repository, so I suspect it will have similar copyright problems. - liveusb-builder seems to require a build for each iso, similar to glim but probably more complicated to audit, because there's a *lot* of files in there: https://github.com/mytbk/liveusb-builder - the latter links to a bunch more similar "multiboot" implementations which don't significantly improve the pool here I'd be curious if people have other options or thoughts, perhaps we could pick another option and ship it in Debian? :) a. -- I believe that love is a better teacher than a sense of duty. - Albert Einstein
