2022-11-07

06:57 PM Packages Freedom Issue #3370: betterdiscordctl (nonfree software)

Confirmed: only useful with proprietary software. gap

2022-11-04

03:52 PM Packages Bug #3367: [multiple]: signature from "bill-auger <bill-auger@peers.community>" is unknown trust corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)

In my experience you have to upgrade the various keyring packages before doing the full system upgrade. gap

2022-11-01

05:22 PM Packages Privacy Issue #3286: [tenacity] Audacity fork minus the spyware

Audacity 3.2 has a "Get more effects..." button in an effects sidebar that links to the Audacity online manual, which... gap

2022-09-30

12:23 AM Packages Freedom Issue #2986: [deepin-wallpapers][deepin-community-wallpapers]: Incorrect license

It looks like they did implement a fix; they moved all the nonfree images to a new repo: https://github.com/linuxdeep... gap

2022-09-28

11:39 PM Packages Packaging Request #2874: [python2-*]: multiple packages dropped from arch

In #3237 I made a table of packages which can be purged without controversy.
As for almost all of these other pack... gap

07:55 PM Packages Freedom Issue #3278: [mesa] Software patent avoidance

Update: Red Hat have disabled support for various codecs in Fedora:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/mesa/c/94ef54... gap

2022-09-27

01:47 AM Packages Packaging Request #3353 (open): Add back ghidra (was: [ghidra] Various freedom and technical issues)

See @PKGBUILD@: https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-community/blob/packages/ghidra/trunk/PKGBUILD
Freedom issues... gap

2022-09-26

05:08 PM Packages Packaging Request #3352 (open): [cpu-x] Popular CPU info tool

This package is in the AUR and is very popular.
It is also meant to be a libre replacement for a proprietary tool wh... gap

12:52 AM Servers Bug #3351 (in progress): git.parabola.nu 504 gateway time-outs

Over the last few days, https://git.parabola.nu has been taking ages to load and displaying many "504 Gateway Time-Ou... gap

2022-09-25

09:44 PM Packages Packaging Request #3285: [nsxiv] Minimalistic, extensible image viewer

Bump: please may someone send the report that @sxiv@ was deprecated upstream to Arch?
I think it's very likely they'... gap