On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 11:28:08AM +1100, Stuart Prescott wrote: > The vrms package is intended to offer explanations as to why packages are > not free to help our users make informed choices about the software that > they install. Its list of reasons is outdated; packages no longer exist > and, in some cases, it incorrectly lists packages as being non-free that > were successfully relicenced many years ago and now are free. Currently, > only 7 of the 42 packages vrms knows about still exist and of those 7 > reasons, 2 are incorrect (angband and povray).
yes, it's buggy and the BTS even has some patches. I've recently considered
an NMU but then decided against it, to keep my sanity/workload…
> Its current functionality can be replaced entirely with:
>
> aptitude search '~i?or(~scontrib,~snon-free)' -F'%p %20s %d'
IOW: I do think it's still pretty useful today. I use it on many
machines via cron and am quite happy with it.
> Given that this package doesn't fulfil its goals, should it be included in
> the upcoming stretch release?
IMO you fail to proof your claim, yet you come to a quite drastic
conclusion.
> (Raising the severity of this bug will be enough to cause vrms to not
> be included in stretch.)
Please don't do that, this will help noone and harm some. Instead,
please NMU (or adapt/co-maintain) vrms!
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cheers,
Holger
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