Bug #723
Broken Source Code management of Arch Repositories
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Description
Recently ABS has stopped syncing and is out of date. Few developers have suggested to discontinue the "ABS" package in favour of the likely solution GIT "https://projects.parabola.nu/abslibre.git/" . However no one focuses on the issue that a majority of the system's packages come from Arch's repositories [core], [extra], [community]. Parabola's abslibre only maintains PKGBUILDs / source code management only for repositories managed by the Parabola Community [libre], [nonprism], [pcr], [kernels] , etc and doesn't merge with Arch's PKGBUILDs. Henceforth this leaves the user with no other option than manually git cloning from Arch which also brings in non-free PKGBUILDs which we have already blacklisted. Not having access to source code management is a Freedom Issue. As per the GNU FSDG https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html "All information for practical use in a free distribution must be available in source form.". Parabola, as it currently technically stands is not in adherence with the above statement.
Suggestion Solutions :
1) Fix ABS
or
2) Merge Repositories/PKGBUILDs from Arch with abslibre
History
Updated by alfplayer almost 9 years ago
icarious wrote:
...this leaves the user with no other option than manually git cloning from Arch which also brings in non-free PKGBUILDs which we have already blacklisted. Not having access to source code management is a Freedom Issue.
They can fetch individual packages in our versions of Arch repositories from their web interface instead of cloning, which does not threaten user freedom.