[Gnewsense-dev] Re: Info manuals missing

[Daniel Clark]

Danny Clark wrote:
> rms wrote:
>> In this gNewSense MIPS installation, several info manuals are missing,
>> including GCC, GDB, binutils, gawk, bison.
>>
>> I have a feeling that gNewSense MIPS has forgotten to add them.
>> Could you add all our manuals to gNewSense MIPS?
> 
> Debian removes them because they are not DFSG-compliant, and I think you
> are correct that gnewsense-mipsel-l (and probably also other flavors of
> gnewsense) don't do anything to re-add them. That would be a good thing
> to do.
> 
>> Danny, could you install them here?
> 
> Yeah, I'll just grab them from the website and stick them somewhere for
> the time being.
> 
> (BTW rms is subscribed to gnewsense-dev but does not get mail from it
> all the time to reduce his enormous mail load, so please cc: him on any
> replies you want him to see.)

FYI the current ugly workaround for this, from /etc/apt/sources.list :

## gnu info manuals
# debian has these in non-free - until they get into gNS, uncomment this
# just long enough to get the packages, then re-comment to avoid
# accidental download of actual non-free software
#deb http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian stable non-free

I'm guessing it won't be that hard to modify the scripts to pull *-doc
packages from the debian non-free repositories and put them in the
gnewsense-mipsel-l main repository.

-- 
Daniel JB Clark   | Sys Admin, Free Software Foundation
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