Re: Debian Libre - blend/pureblend/derivative?
Le Tue, Nov 25, 2025 at 10:15:09AM +0100, Simon Josefsson a écrit :
> Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> writes:
>
> >> 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!
>
> Is there a requirement that the build scripts to produce the images also
> be part of Debian? And a requirement that those scripts doesn't use or
> download anything that is not part of Debian? The current build scripts
> are tiny (<200 lines of shell commands), but it is not part of Debian.
>
> I think one could argue that since the scripts are not part of Debian,
> Debian Libre would not "consist purely of Debian bits", and could thus
> not be a Debian Pure Blend. One could also think that such an argument
> is just silly, but more guidance what the policy means would be nice.
>
> Would it be useful to address this concern by wrapping up the build
> script and add that to Debian properly? For example a
> 'debian-libre-live-build' package. It would be some work to do that and
> the motivation would only be policy-compliance, not any technical goal.
Yes it would be useful.
I understand that debian-live-without-non-free-firmware-build would be
a bit long albeit uncontroversial.
Cheers,
Bill.
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