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The audioplayer clementine uses interfaces for non-free services like Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Subsonic and VK.com regarding storage and accessing files. So of course the software is licensed under the GPL, therefore Copyleft and free, libre software in the first place, but is also using anti-features with those interfaces to mentioned unfree services later on.

So the proposal would be: Creating a fork with removing those interfaces or otherwise removal of the whole package.

Within the concurrent version of xenocara for version 0.4 there is a problem in vesa, generating the error-message “V_BIOS address 0×0 out of range”. It is a known old bug that was fixed when D-Bus arrived by default.

This issue is oriented onto to document the steps to test further solutions and rework the x-server.

Description: Tried with new compiled version of mumble no open and secured with SSL-certificate is reachable. Log within console:

qt.network.ssl: QSslSocket: cannot resolve SSL_CTX_set_options
qt.network.ssl: QSslSocket: cannot resolve SSL_session_reused
qt.network.ssl: QSslSocket: cannot resolve SSL_set_options
qt.network.ssl: QSslSocket: cannot resolve BN_is_word
qt.network.ssl: QSslSocket: cannot resolve SSL_in_init

<W>2021-08-23 01:00:18.814 QSslSocket: cannot call unresolved function sk_num

<W>2021-08-23 01:00:20.270 QSslSocket: cannot call unresolved function SSL_CTX_set_options

User reports a problem with the concurrent version of fair-viewer and gtk-fair-viewer, not being able to start and run the application. More details in the posting: https://forums.hyperbola.info/viewtopic.php?pid=3476#p3476

After making sure that the system date is correct, when one tries to refresh the
pacman keys (`pacman-key –refresh-keys`) they will be given an error:
Server indicated a failure

The error will not be fixed if you remove all the pacman gnupg assets nor if you
attempt to fix `dirmngr`.

This seams to only be reproducable as well when pacman-init fails to load on but, dont know if it is just a coiencidence but it seams both are related

Also both irelativism and reports by users in IRC where able to reproduce this on version 0.3.1 and might even come from previous release, so issue is presistant over new release cycle.

Within the current version of smplayer in the repositories a proprietary interface to Chromecast is activated and therefore a risk for privacy of the users as this hardware is the complete opposite of freedom.

Description: Configuration file “syslinux.cfg” under /boot/syslinux/ has to be adjusted. Problem with kernel-images loaded and the concurrent booting device is per default configured to /dev/sda3. Kernel-images are named as “linux-libre” not “linux-libre-lts”.

There are issues with the current sndio-package as it seems not possible to get this to work with ALSA.

Description: Package xlsfonts is missing and should absolutely being added also within groups for ‘xenocara-apps’ and ‘xorg-apps’.

The Arch version of “supervisor” from the snapshot used by Hyperbola comes with systemd support. Since Hyperbola follows the a global ruleset for INIT-freedom, systemd unit files removal is required and adding support for other init-systems (preferred OpenRC for now) to replace it.

The daemon is not working and the following error-message occurs when trying to starting up:

cdemu: Daemon: D-Bus: failed to get proxy for 'org.freedesktop.DBus' on session bus: Cannot autolaunch D-Bus without X11 $DISPLAY!
Daemon initialization and start failed!

Description: As sndio has its own problems I’d propose to reactivate ALSA for all UXP-applications.

With the newest package-update the xserver xenocara has missing dependencies towards adobe-fonts and twm.

Description: Thanks for the actual release of Icedove in combination with UXP. But for now support for Lightning / Iceowl is missing. Could you please add this package again, either within Icedove-UXP itself or as another addon compatible with UXP?

Description: Not finally tested, only getting the logs from chat within here for better analysis later on. User reported that touchpad is not working for now with Hyperbola GNU/Linux 0.4. dmesg-messagelog:

[anonymous@anonymous ~]$ dmesg | grep pad
[ 4.766853] psmouse serio1: synaptics: The touchpad can support a better bus than the too old PS/2 protocol. Make sure MOUSE_PS2_SYNAPTICS_SMBUS and RMI4_SMB are enabled to get a better touchpad experience.
[ 4.823723] psmouse serio1: synaptics: Touchpad model: 1, fw: 8.1, id: 0x1e2b1, caps: 0xf00123/0×840300/0x2e800/0×0, board id: 3127, fw id: 8526786

Description: User reporting problems with sndio. A further check with ALSA showed no active device being used. User has HDMI-sound in usage.

Application is not starting and needs therefore a rework.

Description: Bug related to the font handling under Hyperbola. xfontsel doesn’t list the PCF bitmapped fonts, which are used for some legacy tools with Motif/Athena for instance. If you want to use a font with good coverage of symbols (misc fixed 10×20 iso10646-1) under DDD (for accented/non ASCII characters), you can’t, you are restricted to ASCII 9×15 fonts.

Additional info:
This error happens even if all -meta font meta-packages are installed.

Description:

Additional info:
* 0.9.10-2.hyperbola2

Steps to reproduce: Flatpak gives access to interesting features for the deployment of applications, but in fact it also gives access to proprietary applications like Skype (https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.skype.Client), Steam (https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.valvesoftware.Steam) and many more. So it should be checked if this should be part of the repositories within an open, libre distribution. In my point of view this violates the freedom of users, because there can be not tolerance about intolerance even regarding this.

After installing and adding it to the configuration under /etc/conf.d/modules the concurrent module won’t be loaded at all.

Description: As Gnome has decided against following libre, free principles the desktop-environment has becoming a risk for the privacy and freedom for users. Meaning that the desktop-environment with all basic packages should be removed. Of course the final decision is up to the community and the development-team. Followed up are more reasons for the insights:

* Bloated with questionable dependencies (including mandatory systemd)
* Using proprietary services as high risk for freedom and privacy for users (https://i.stack.imgur.com/yZcyV.png)
* Coming up with questionable and vague principles, against software-freedom in a whole (inclusion of flatpak and flathub as so-called standardization for distributions, discussions about proprietary software included within the software-center)

Additional info for packages:

gnome-backgrounds
gnome-calculator
gnome-contacts
gnome-control-center
gnome-dictionary
gnome-disk-utility
gnome-font-viewer
gnome-keyring
gnome-screenshot
gnome-session
gnome-settings-daemon
gnome-shell
gnome-shell-extensions
gnome-system-monitor
gnome-terminal
gnome-themes-standard
gnome-user-docs
gnome-user-share
grilo-plugins

It happened already with minetest and again with prosody: When trying to build own packages with makepkg there are patches downloaded from the Debian-project. But the given HTTP(S)-sources are no longer available, concrete example within prosody to be found: https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/prosody/prosody_0.10.2-1~bpo9+1.debian.tar.xz (not available)

Please don’t rely on those external sources when creating PKGBUILD-files or just give users the possibility for a secure and granted download. Therefore I cannot build prosody on my own now!

When trying to start a new campaign the complete game-engine is crashing with the following message:

Object::disconnect: Unexpected null parameter
QCoreApplication::postEvent: Unexpected null receiver

As ghc and fpc should be removed in the near future it would be good to validate this or otherwise remove the game-package itself also.