Bug#824383: gnome-software: packages not installed from repositories are claimed to be non-free

[Paul Wise]

On Sun, 2016-05-15 at 18:42 +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote:

> Where would that (machine readable) metadata be? Parsing
> debian/copyright files is impractical, especially if they are not
> machine-readable (which is the case with Xchat).

As I implied in the other email, the Section field in debian/control of
source packages indicates if a package is non-free or not and this
field is also present in the corresponding binary package and in the
dpkg status file for all packages, including manually installed ones.

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise


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