[CC'ing Chris so he can elaborate on this. Side note, he and few other Purism folks are at LibrePlanet]
On 03/26/2018 12:58 PM, bill-auger wrote: > On 03/25/2018 05:58 AM, Zlatan Todoric wrote: >> Debian kernel itself is entirely free but there was issues with messages >> that was brought to us and we worked on it both in PureOS and Debian at >> same time. >> >> https://tracker.pureos.net/T362 > > i am curious about this - i thought about tackling it myself at one > point but i was told that it is a very difficult problem to fix - the > work you point took one day - if it were so easy i would have hoped this > would have been fixed many years ago > > i found it difficult to learn exactly what you guys did though - this is > what i could determine: > > * todd opened an issue named "firmware binary warning should not appear > for non-free binaries" > * a few hours later chris said (paraphrasing) "i dont think debian will > take this" > * he instead offered a patch that removed nothing but added the URL to a > debian wiki page to the log warning > * the next day the issue was closed with: "chris.lamb closed this task > as "Resolved". Fixed in initramfs-tools_0.130pureos1" > > how exactly was this issue resolved? the issue title seems spot on but > that patch does not even attempt to address the FSDG issue of the blob > name - it is exactly the solution the connochaetos proposed last august > that was not accepted[1] and the review of connochaetos essentially > halted at that point > > the 'pureos1' on the end of the package name conventionally indicates > that the downstream has modified the upstream package - but there was no > patch attached to the issue and the pureos website does not indicate any > dedicated section for code review nor version control so it is not at > all clear that pureos added anything to that package on that day > > it seems the only way to find this is in the deb repo - but that only > has the most recent version of each package and > initramfs-tools_0.130pureos2 has already clobbered > initramfs-tools_0.130pureos1 - is there any way i (or anyone) could see > what actually changed in that package when chris declared "i fixed it"? > > or could you just tell us what did chris actually fix? > * "firmware binary warning should not appear for non-free binaries" > > or the debian patch: > * "add a link to the https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware to 'firmware: > failed to load' log messages" > > > > [1]: > https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnu-linux-libre/2017-08/msg00039.html >
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