Re: [gNewSense-users] Texlive/diagram.tex nonfree - WAS: (no subject)

[Tor at Shared Genius]

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Benedikt Ahrens wrote:
> (* sorry for the empty mail some minutes ago *)
> 
> hello,
> 
> gnewsense is affected by the following debian bug:
> 
> Bug#514742:
> texlive-generic-extra: non-commercial license for barr/diagram.tex
> 
> the report:
> http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00305
>

Looks like a freedom bug, and probably should be removed, as debian did
for their most recent release earlier this year.  Debian bug report,
which is now linked in bug comments, is at
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514742

> 
> btw, i have not understood the following sentence on the bug report page:
> "If it’s not in a package we changed, or the same problem exists in hardy, 
> it’s not a bug in gNewSense."
> can somebody explain its meaning and purpose?

IIUC, this has to do with usability bugs.  Because DeltaH is essentially
Hardy, then a bug in Hardy is /not/ a bug in gNewSense, since we don't
have the manpower to fix them.  There are packages that are changed (or
even removed), so it is a bug /if/ it is caused by those changes.

Freedom bugs, on the other hand, are what we are trying to squash with
gNewSense, so all freedom bugs are gNewSense bugs, and should be reported.

Tor

> 
> ben
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