Le lundi, 10 décembre 2012 18.00:03, Holger Wansing a écrit : > But we already mention Windows tools in the guide, which are also not > part of Debian, for example for partitioning. > I would vote for including plop too.
Which ones, specifically ? As far as I read chapter 3.5, we just advise users to "repartition", without saying how. The other Windows executables we advise to use are in Debian: loadlin and win32-loader. Furthermore, I think "plop" is a widely different beast in that context: it's a bootloader, which runs on the bare metal and could do lots of things to anything it boots. Furthermore, I can't find any indication that it is free software nor links to the source, which is apparently assembler. Closer examination of the license [0] indicates that it is non-free as per "The programs may not be sold". Earlier I was lightly against pointing to it for "not built by Debian" reasons: I was worried about us advising users to use free software that we would not be ensuring trust for. Now, given that I have realised that plop i non-released-source non-free software, I'm really firmly against pointing to it, for the risks inherently carried by installing a non-free assembler bootloader on bare metal. Cheers, OdyX [0] http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/licence.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
