# How to Blacklist a package (adapted from [1]Parabola GNU/Linux-Libre Wiki) if you find a package that contains, uses or recommends nonfree software, it should be added to blacklist.txt until a way to free it is found. more generally, any package in violation to the [2]FSDG belongs in blacklist.txt other packages should be added to your-privacy-blacklist.txt, your-freedom_emu-blacklist.txt or both if they endanger privacy or only exist for the sake of using nonfree software; respectively. see [3] and [4] for more info. ## Reporting a freedom bug Every blacklisted package should have an associated bug report for the purpose of documentation. This can be a bug report on the debian, savannah, fedora, or parabola bug trackers, or en entry on the libreplanet 'List_of_software_that_does_not_respect_the_FSDG" wiki page. This should be referenced in the blacklist entry, as explained in the SYNTAX file, Ideally the bug report should detail the precise nature of the freedom issues, the liberation procedure if one is known, or some alternate replacement, if any, that can be used if there is no viable liberation procedure. If no such bug report yet exists: * file a bug report on the [7]Parabola Issue Tracker * choose the project responsible for it, nearly always "Packages" * choose the "Freedom issue" type and priority ## Preferred method (blacklisting the package) 1. Start by trying to liberate the package in whatever way possible in order to make it useful in freedom. If that is not possible or is too much work or will be too high-maintenance relative to the program's usefulness, try finding some alternate replacement program that accomplishes the same task. If that turns out to be is similarly unfruitful, simply continue blacklisting the package with no replacement. (NOTE: your-freedom_emu-blacklist packages are not meant to have replacements) 2. pull [8]blacklist.git 3. add an entry for the package according to the SYNTAX file 4. if you have [5]git write access, push changes if not, send a patch produced using `git format-patch` to dev@lists.parabola.nu 5. if you have shell access, ssh into repo.parabola.nu and run db-check-nonfree 6. if you have shell access, pull [9]abslibre.git and make a new release of the corresponding blacklist package (e.g. your-freedom) ## References: [1]: https://wiki.parabola.nu/How_to_Blacklist_a_package [2]: https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html [3]: https://wiki.parabola.nu/Nonprism [4]: https://wiki.parabola.nu/Emulator_licensing_issues [5]: https://git.parabola.nu [6]: https://wiki.parabola.nu/Creating_-libre_packages [7]: https://labs.parabola.nu [8]: https://git.parabola.nu/blacklist.git [9]: https://git.parabola.nu/abslibre.git