On Mon, 1 Nov 2021 23:05:47 +0100 Sam wrote: > make a list of all modified/deleted packages.
its much simpler than described in the previous post - starting with parabola's blacklist, most of the work is already done this is exactly the "blacklist rescue team" project proposed for the FSD a few years ago - at that time, i wrote a script which effectively mirrors the parabola blacklist data on a wiki - the data is a single CSV file with references to detailed bug reports and/or liberation procedures https://git.parabola.nu/blacklist.git/tree/post_fsd_wiki.phantomjs?h=wiki-post any distros with similar blacklists could use the script to add distro-specific details/caveats sections IIRC, the reason for the debian bias on that wiki page is because that list was maintained by trisquel and/or gnewsense devs - that is one key area to improve initially - the most difficult hurdle ahead, is to extend the script to map distro-specific package names to wiki pages, reduce duplicates (merge electron, electron6, electron7, ...), etc FWIW, the intention/policy of the parabola blacklist has always been to complement the FSDG blacklist, and to prefer the FSDG blacklist as the primary reference/bug-report, for any programs on it - so the idea to automate synchronizing/consolidating the knowledge-base is as old as the FSDG and parabola themselves - it appears to be among the original intentions of those distros, which were involved with the FSDG in the early years
