Re: [gNewSense-users] Debian kernel cleanup

[Sam Geeraerts]

Yavor Doganov wrote:
> As some of you may know, Robert Millan started to report bugs about
> the non-free bits in Debian's kernel that is going to be shipped in
> Lenny.  It would be great if the KFV people could recheck them to see
> if something is missed in gNewSense's kernel.
>
> This link should work provided that no bug is downgraded (some were
> closed already):
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=src&data=linux-2.6&archive=no&version=&dist=unstable&sev-inc=serious
I've looked into this and everything's in our deblob script.

The state of the wiki for those files was not so good. Some of the files 
were not recognized as non-free. Some were, but weren't reported as a 
bug (possibly because they were found to be already in the deblob 
script). The last edit for most of them was from 0% free, not reported 
to 100% free, N/A, which makes it look like the kernel is more free than 
it actually is. I wonder what the reasoning was behind this, because the 
edit comments don't provide any insight.

Anyway, I've fixed all this in the wiki. But it shows that there 
are/were some problems with the freedom verification process.

Regards,

Samgee