From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 10:05:16 -0500 Message-ID: References: <6193374b-a60d-ba82-91b5-afdede18e3bb@yandex.ru> <72871d3a-3b6a-d6fd-01cc-4248f817923c@yandex.ru> <801f93f3-8c1f-5f5f-6351-e1169bc309ae@yandex.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="32885"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Jean Louis , ulm@gentoo.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, ams@gnu.org, arthur.miller@live.com, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 07 16:06:30 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kxWru-0008Qu-Kd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 16:06:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42728 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxWrt-0006Ri-Ch for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 10:06:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36720) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxWqr-0005uz-AI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 10:05:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:3108) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxWqo-00035d-HI; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 10:05:24 -0500 Original-Received: from pmg2.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by pmg2.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 008938090B; Thu, 7 Jan 2021 10:05:20 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg2.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 851AD8009B; Thu, 7 Jan 2021 10:05:18 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1610031918; bh=BLsnO4B0X4zZsXiiXnLYkJT0V5RORsKh4Z4S8WZwvCo=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=ASUNtea2v4Yx39h9l8bZaxyk+ktpQdWwWqvGSIOHCMtltRTYCrRbsHx71sBxZ79kP Sqtm0BEsY34eoTc5VzMRI6bdH1mSPzwzP7cf6r4S6I+c8EyDRe5EepD3uz8CgQffDE 8S3Fv/yPQf2nE18rEmhyz28xqCd9D10Na2fACFFi6ksKgt66TMWCWhHOhdI6kUe3e1 EdpTMIJb8VoxYh8tZvjSnnpGCFew+vwMs7v9gwvyoslYJZkz4jkCOP6CjAxy/9jPtW rlAtIyZmwVhFQrGa4HpgsCQuqSqwqtgpOdk7ZTQPQcmAIyZGpu4sYhVl9FHAxuCZyK y3bRGGWsZVtrg== Original-Received: from alfajor (unknown [45.72.224.181]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 24ED51201F1; Thu, 7 Jan 2021 10:05:18 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:49:31 -0500") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=132.204.25.50; envelope-from=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca; helo=mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca X-Spam_score_int: -42 X-Spam_score: -4.3 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.3 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:262685 Archived-At: Could you people actually read what goes in this thread before getting on your high horses. The author already sent a new version days ago which tries to filter out non-free packages (and I'm working with him to refine his code). 'Nough said, Stefan Richard Stallman [2021-01-07 02:49:31] wrote: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > You've brought us bad news about repology.org. Not only does it include > nonfree packages with no effort to avoid them, it fails to provide > enough information for us to easily filter them out. > > I see two ways we could possibly manage to use repology.org in the > Free World. > > * Find a way to distinguish free from nonfree packages. I see two > ideas One is to snarf the lists of free packages from Debian and > Parabola. Another is to see if free packages list a license that > shows they are free. You might have other ideas. > > * Ask the developer of repology.org to work with us to indicate which > packages are free, maybe even provide a way to specify "show me only > free packages". > > Does anyone have another idea?