Linux Libre in Debian

Jason Self j at jxself.org
Tue Dec 9 12:56:34 UTC 2025


On Tue, 2025-12-09 at 09:33 +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> So even if the deblob scripts will disappear, running a diff between
> the linux-libre tarball that you publish and the upstream linux
> kernel code, then applying that patch during build, will result in
> the same input source for the build process.  So I think this
> approach of doing a "delta" package can continue to work even if the
> deblob scripts would disappear.

Except not so much:

On Mon, 2025-12-08 at 04:51 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> ...but publishing such scripts is probably not going to work,
> freedom-wise.

We currently have diffs that don't get published because the diffs
contain the problematic stuff being deleted. Sharing them means also
sharing that.
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