Le Tue, Nov 25, 2025 at 10:15:09AM +0100, Simon Josefsson a écrit : > 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. > > I think one could argue that since the scripts are not part of Debian, > Debian Libre would not "consist purely of Debian bits", and could thus > not be a Debian Pure Blend. One could also think that such an argument > is just silly, but more guidance what the policy means would be nice. > > Would it be useful to address this concern by wrapping up the build > script and add that to Debian properly? For example a > 'debian-libre-live-build' package. It would be some work to do that and > the motivation would only be policy-compliance, not any technical goal.
Yes it would be useful. I understand that debian-live-without-non-free-firmware-build would be a bit long albeit uncontroversial. Cheers, Bill.
