Quoting Simon Josefsson (2025-11-25 10:15:09) > Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]> writes: > > >> 1) Debian Libre as a Debian Pure Blend. As far as I can tell, this > >> isn't that far away, the images serves a purpose for a special group of > >> target users. Could this be considered a Debian Pure Blend already? > >> What is missing to become officially blessed? > > > > A system design consisting purely Debian bits is a "Debian Pure Blend". > > No need for any further blessing - go ahead and print stickers for it! > > Is there a requirement that the build scripts to produce the images also > be part of Debian? And a requirement that those scripts doesn't use or > download anything that is not part of Debian? The current build scripts > are tiny (<200 lines of shell commands), but it is not part of Debian.
Purely means 100%. not 99.99999. Funnily, last time I had such conversation about bending the rules was when the term "Debian Pure Blends" was coined, in a conversation about whether Skolelinux could call itself "pure" without solving bug#311188. For the record, I do not consider Skolelinux "offensive", nor have I propose to label it "policy-violating-Debian". Just insisted to not call it a pure blend while it s factually ever-so-slightly impure. > How do other Blends work, do they package their build scripts? Some blends use blends-dev. A few use boxer. I am not aware if some blends (pure or not) use other helper tools. > > Good luck with your project - I think it sounds like a worthy project, > > regardless if you choose an approach where "Debian Pure Blend" is > > inappropriate do describe it. > > Thank you -- I think maybe the solution isn't to decide on one thing to > provide, but realize that the effort may offer multiple things: > > Debian Libre Pure Blend - current live images, using only Debian bits > (modulo my question above). > > Debian Libre Blend - live images that also configure additional > archives, to add say linux-libre or some other package that Debian > rejects. > > Debian Libre Derivative - a derivative that copy Debian removing the > non-free parts. I guess this shouldn't have "Debian" in the name? Sounds sensible to me. Last I checked (which is quite some time ago) Skolelinux did similar, in providing one product officially part of Debian, and another generated outside of Debian (due to bug#311188, as I understand it, but possibly for other reasons as well, or I might have misunderstood and that bug has never been of decisive concern for Skolelinux developers). - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ * Sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/drjones [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
