Re: [H-source-users] [bug #63209] devuan GNU/Linux not on list of supported distributions

[John Sullivan]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 08:09:56PM -0400, bill-auger wrote:
> it is not a drastic change - it only means that more debian
> users will have the non-free firmware repo enabled, and fewer
> will have the non-free repos enabled - but probably that
> accounts for a minority of users, and only for new installs -
> probably the majority of debian users already have non-free
> firmwares installed anyways, and the non-free repos enabled
> 
> as it concerns h-node, the difference is probably negligible -
> debian submissions already are very unreliable
> 

Previously, Debian submissions were reliable -- the bright line was simple: no
other repos besides main enabled. If only main was enabled, Debian submissions
could be trusted. The same thing needs to be said for every other distro on the
list. People add repos with nonfree software to Trisquel sources.list as well,
believe it or not.

However, after the Debian vote, the situation is different and it makes sense
to me to revisit it.

Devuan was actually worse than Debian previously -- Devuan included non-free
software on the main installation media already. So it could not be added to
the list, because in that case it was not sufficient to ask users whether they
had only main enabled. Even if they only had main enabled, they could have the
nonfree packages installed from the original installation media very naturally.
I don't know what Devuan's plans are now, or if my info on that is out-of-date.

-john

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