Hello David, On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 12:54:56AM +0200, David Englund/Hedlund wrote: > Package: icedove > Version: 31.7.0 > > Provider for Google Calendar is part of Icedove > (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=icedove), and > describe itself as "allows bidirectional access to Google Calendar". While > Provider for Google Calendar is free, Google Calendar distributed as > freeware which make it proprietary. Icedove currently recommend proprietary > software with other words.
that's not fully true. Icedove itself isn't recommends anything other than dictionaries. > $ apt show icedove | grep Recommends > > WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface yet. Use with caution in > scripts. > > Recommends: myspell-en-us | hunspell-dictionary | myspell-dictionary iceowl-extension is the package that recommends calendar-google-provider. > $ apt show iceowl-extension | grep Recommends > > WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface yet. Use with caution in > scripts. > > Recommends: calendar-google-provider So we have to look there. > Suggested fix: Remove Provider for Google Calendar completely from Icedove. I disagree, the plugin itself is completely open source (not only freeware neither proprietary) and does nothing without any further action. It means, without a Google account you are unable to use this plugin as you pointed out. From that point of view there is absolutely no need to remove this package from the repository. But I agree that we can change the Recommends in a Suggests so it not getting installed by the default setup of Debian as it happen now for packages marked as Recommends. Regards Carsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
