[Dev] Orphan Pcr package [gajim-plugin-omemo] marked out-of-date

[Megver83]

afaik, Gajim only offers FLOSS plugins

El 26-07-20 a las 15:44, bill-auger escribió:
> that is one of the main reasons why plugins are packaged
> separately though - if that program allows searching and
> downloading plugins from the internet, it falls under the
> category of a third-party package manager, and most of
> those are dubious WRT FSDG-fitness
> 
> unless that program only lists free software, then it is likely
> that someone will eventually post a freedom bug report, to
> remove the entire download feature - which means we may need to
> re-package gajim, and some of its its popular plugins too
> 
> there is a long discussion about TPPMs, and many related issues,
> and proposals for how to handle them - it seems that gajim needs
> to be added to that ticket as another one to investigate
> 
> https://labs.parabola.nu/issues/1035
> 
> we should be moving in the direction of filtering or avoiding
> third-party package managers, rather than encouraging people to
> use them - what we have found so far, is that filtering is either
> very difficult or impossible to do automatically, because very
> few TPPMs indicate licenses or have any policies about what is
> allowed in the repo - with the exception of haskell and guix,
> which have stricter guidelines than the others, it would be
> better to discourage their use as much as possible
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