Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote (Thu, 15 Apr 2021 08:28:52 +0200): > Hi! > > I created a partman-hfs package that is required for the installation of > PowerMacs but will also allow to create HFS and HFS+ partitions on any > machines. It might be useful on Intel Macs as well for creating shared > partitions for dual-boot Macs. > > While including the necessary hfsprogs-udeb in debian-installer is a bit > tricky due to the non-free license of src:hfsprogs, I was wondering whether > it would be okay nevertheless to include the git repository for partman-hfs > packaging in the debian-installer's team project?
Apparently I did not got the point regarding non-free here, when reading this mail that day. Now I see that partman-hfs is in contrib, and that opened my eyes. I wonder if it's ok from the license point-of-view, to have a installer module from contrib in the installer? Doesn't this turn the whole installer into a no-longer DFSG-free piece of software? Or in other words: can we call such installer the "official Debian-Installer"? (There is another issue about non-free firmware to be included in the installer, and unofficial installer images were introduced for this; maybe this is a similar thing?) Ahhh, another thought comes to mind: maybe this partman-hfs is for ports releases anyway, and not to be used in official release archs? Holger -- Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
