Freedom Issue #3116
[archboot-linux-firmware] Nonfree blobs
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Description
- steps to reproduce:
1. Open package page: https://www.parabola.nu/packages/extra/x86_64/archboot-linux-firmware/
2. Navigate to the Upstream URL and inspect the files, for example see file https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/WHENCE , and license after line "Driver: mtk-vpu - Mediatek VPU video processing unit driver"
- expected result:
Only freely licensed files are in the repo
- actual result:
Many files are licensed under nonfree licenses.
History
Updated by gap almost 2 years ago
Confirmed.
This package is essentially just the linux-firmware package, which is blacklisted and replaced by the linux-libre-firmware package.
As this package is therefore rendered redundant, I honestly don't know why it even exists, unless there's a very good special reason, although it's probably either bad engineering or a historical vestige.
Updated by bill-auger almost 2 years ago
- steps to reproduce:
1. Open package page: https://www.parabola.nu/packages/extra/x86_64/archboot-linux-firmware/
can not reproduce
404 - Page Not Found
Sorry, the page you've requested does not exist.
# pacman -Sys archboot <nothing>
this package was added to the blacklist in october 2021 - it was removed from the blacklist this week; because it no longer exists - am i missing something?
what exactly are you confirming? - it seems to me that this ticket could have been closed 6 months ago
Updated by gap almost 2 years ago
It's in the i686 repos.
I presume it's being imported from Arch32.
Do we have a script which checks if a package no longer exists upstream in Arch/Arch32/ArchARM/Artix?
Updated by bill-auger almost 2 years ago
- Assignee set to bill-auger
- Status changed from unconfirmed to in progress
ok i see that now - arch32 lags behind arch somewhat - arch32 marked this package "(scheduled for removal)" - that means they noticed that arch has removed it, and are planning to remove it also, as soon as it can be done while retaining system sanity - it will soon disappear from parabola automatically
there is no urgency; because linux-libre will not load these modules