Hi Simon, and others. Quoting Simon Josefsson (2025-11-25 00:30:33) > I build and publish Debian Live ISO images from a GitLab pipeline for a > couple of flavors arm64/amd64 gnome/standard/slim made without any > non-free software, and just made 13.2.0 images available from here: > > https://gitlab.com/debdistutils/debian-libre/debian-libre-live > > I want to explore formalizing this contribution somehow. I was reading > the Debian Pure Blends manual -- https://blends.debian.org/blends/ -- > and would like to hear what people think about going down this route for > Debian Libre. What do you think? > > I'm not familiar with the terminology and processes around Blends, so > I'm looking for guidance on what make sense, what is easily possible, > what could be possible with more work, what would be controversial, and > what would be a bad idea. I see the manual describe how to become a > Debian Pure Blends, but I'm not even at the stage where I know if that > even make sense. > > I can see some paths forward: > > 1) Debian Libre as a Debian Pure Blend. As far as I can tell, this > isn't that far away, the images serves a purpose for a special group of > target users. Could this be considered a Debian Pure Blend already? > What is missing to become officially blessed? A system design consisting purely Debian bits is a "Debian Pure Blend". No need for any further blessing - go ahead and print stickers for it! > 2) Adding more libre-oriented packages, such as GNU Linux-Libre: > https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/selibre/linux-libre/ > > 2a) Is it "permitted" for a Debian Pure Blends to configure additional > non-debian.org archives to fetch packages from? Is that what makes it > a "non-Pure" Blend? > > 2b) Could linux-libre be added to Debian properly? I suppose some > work to reduce duplication of kernel code would be required. Has > including linux-libre been discussed before, and was there any > conclusive outcome of that? A system including non-Debian bits is not a Debian Pure Blend. Feel free to call is a Debian Blend (without the "pure" designation). I do understand that your aim is "more pure than Debian", but the terminology is about Debian-ness, not about other interpretations of purity. Good luck with your project - I think it sounds like a worthy project, regardless if you choose an approach where "Debian Pure Blend" is inappropriate do describe it. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ * Sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/drjones [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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