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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0010856 | Taler | taler-rust | public | 2026-01-07 15:42 | 2026-01-07 23:00 |
| Reporter | davidhedlund | Assigned To | Christian Grothoff | Resolution deadline | |
| Implementer | Reviewer | ||||
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| Verifier | Communicator | ||||
| Data protection authority notification required | No | ||||
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| Estimated effort (hours) | Actual effort (hours) | 0 | |||
| Fast-track | No | ||||
| Work package | none | ||||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | have not tried |
| Status | closed | Resolution | not fixable | ||
| Product Version | git (master) | ||||
| Target Version | 1.4 | Fixed in Version | 1.4 | ||
| Summary | 0010856: Make Ubuntu installation independent of "universe" repository | ||||
| Description | Section 2.3.3 "Installing the GNU Taler binary packages on Ubuntu" states: Make sure to have universe in your /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources (after main) as we depend on some packages from Ubuntu universe.Ubuntu's multiverse repository The "universe" repository contains packages with non-free licenses, which contradicts GNU Taler being free software. The instruction should specify only which free software dependencies are actually needed, or clarify that only specific free packages from universe are required. Link: https://docs.taler.net/taler-merchant-manual.html#installing-the-gnu-taler-binary-packages-on-ubuntu | ||||
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| Sorry, the universe repository is free (I confused it with the multiverse repository). Let me rephrase this issue: https://docs.taler.net/taler-merchant-manual.html#installing-the-gnu-taler-binary-packages-on-ubuntu says Make sure to have universe in your /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources (after main) as we depend on some packages from Ubuntu universe.Ubuntu's multiverse repository The issue is that the universe repository cannot be used in Trisquel, see https://bugs.gnunet.org/view.php?id=10834 So please change the title to: Make Ubuntu installation independent of "universe" repository to make it compatible with Trisquel | |
| Again, how? We cannot change our dependencies, and we cannot force Ubuntu to move our dependencies into main. | |
| While overnight changes to dependencies aren't feasible, achieving compatibility with Trisquel remains a worthwhile long-term objective. | |
| Thank you very much for your helpful work on this project. Taler matters a lot because it helps build better tools for private online payments that people can trust and use easily every day. | |
| Well, I think it's the other way round: we have to hope (and maybe push for) those dependencies to become part of mainline Ubuntu -- or Trisquel. That's better than expecting the dependencies to go away, that's not likely. And again, it's not a matter of the dependencies being non-free, Universe just means that Canonical doesn't offer commercial support for those (which makes it completely unclear to me why Trisquel couldn't just use/support all of them). | |
| Again, nothing for us to do, the dependencies *are* free, distributions not packaging some FLOSS dependency of ours is really only something the respective distros can fix, so this should be filed against _their_ bugtracker, not ours. | |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-07 15:42 | davidhedlund | New Issue | |
| 2026-01-07 16:37 | davidhedlund | Note Added: 0027208 | |
| 2026-01-07 21:37 | Christian Grothoff | Note Added: 0027212 | |
| 2026-01-07 21:37 | Christian Grothoff | Status | new => feedback |
| 2026-01-07 22:06 | davidhedlund | Note Added: 0027213 | |
| 2026-01-07 22:06 | davidhedlund | Status | feedback => new |
| 2026-01-07 22:17 | davidhedlund | Note Added: 0027216 | |
| 2026-01-07 22:59 | Christian Grothoff | Note Added: 0027217 | |
| 2026-01-07 22:59 | Christian Grothoff | Summary | Make Ubuntu installation independent of nonfree "universe" repository => Make Ubuntu installation independent of "universe" repository |
| 2026-01-07 23:00 | Christian Grothoff | Assigned To | => Christian Grothoff |
| 2026-01-07 23:00 | Christian Grothoff | Status | new => closed |
| 2026-01-07 23:00 | Christian Grothoff | Resolution | open => not fixable |
| 2026-01-07 23:00 | Christian Grothoff | Fixed in Version | => 1.4 |
| 2026-01-07 23:00 | Christian Grothoff | Note Added: 0027218 | |
| 2026-01-07 23:00 | Christian Grothoff | Product Version | => git (master) |
| 2026-01-07 23:00 | Christian Grothoff | Target Version | => 1.4 |