Re: Privoxy

[email protected] wrote:

> I downloaded your package from the mirror using
> 
> sudo apt-get install privoxy and was ccorrectly installed on my own

Note that we don't operate apt-get mirrors.
 
> GNU/linux gNewSense a distribution GNU/linux 100% Free Software then i
> decided to read your manual, that i found in /etc/privoxy and i opened
> the file config with the editor nano.
> 
> nano config
> 
> very interesting the manual, but i could understand the manual for
> GNU/linux or GNU/KFreeBSD or NetBSD or OpenBSD, but sincerely i don't
> understand all the other operating systems such as microsft windows,
> apple computer cupertino.inc mac os x, commodore amiga os, ibm os/2, sun
> microsystems solaris
> 
> i downloaded a package *.deb and this means that i am interested to
> GNU/linux, i am not interested to all the other operating systems which
> are in the world.
> 
> i download from the mirror which normally has only 100% Free Software ?

I don't know what inclusion policies your mirror operators use.

> why your manual explain the use for 100% Non Free Operating Systems ?

Because Privoxy is used on non-free operating systems as well.
 
> so if a person download a package *.deb it is necessary to find things
> explained very well only for our operating systems which are 100% Free
> Software.
> 
> it's not important to find a complete manual for all the others operating
> systems.

It's not important but as long as it doesn't cause confusion I
don't consider it a problem. Also note that there are persons who
use Privoxy on more than a single operating system. Some of them
prefer a single Privoxy manual where they can skip the parts
they don't care about.

> the Free Software Foundation put to disposition these GNU/linux
> distributions which are 100% Free Software and gives its own support only
> to two ones, for problems due to time, that is always few, for the big
> job they have to do.
> 
> GNU/linux Blag, GNU/linux Dragora, GNU/linux Dynebolic, GNU/linux
> gNewSense (support of http://www.fsf.org) GNU/linux Musix, GNU/linux
> Parabola, GNU/linux Trisquel, GNU/linux Ututo (support of
> http://www.fsf.org), GNU/linux Venenux.
> 
> Debianis working to GNU/HURD and to GNU/KFreeBSD !
> 
> i cleaned a little your manual, but i can't know which parts are for
> ibm, microsoft, apple, sun microsystems, commodore amiga os.

Most parts are relevant for all operating systems Privoxy runs on.
The exceptions should already clearly name the operating systems they
target.

> please i invite to clean the manual from all that things which does not
> refers to *.nix operating systems such as:

I think a patch that simply removes documentation for supported
operating systems would be more appropriate for downstream
distributions that package Privoxy.

To solve the "problem" upstream would require a patch that allows
to optionally skip parts of the platform-specific documentation
when regenerating it.

If you feel strongly about this, feel free to submit one.
 
> and if i am dowloading a package for *.deb i need only *.deb, about all
> the other one, it is not important, all the other ones which desire to
> use mac os x, windows, os/2, commodore amiga, ... must have acess to a
> directory where is possible to find only for non free software operating
> systems !

Why is this segregation important?

> Those GNU/linux distributions such as GNU/KFreeBSD and GNU/HURD are
> working hardly, and they want only things which refers to Free Software
> and i can
> understood them, and this to give people the Freedom to use an operating
> system cleaned by support to restricted packages.

Debian GNU/kFreeBSD and Debian GNU/Hurd aren't actually
GNU/Linux distributions.

Also note that mentioning proprietary operating systems in the
documentation isn't forbidden by the Debian Free Software
Guidelines (http://www.debian.org/social_contract.en.html),
so it's not clear to me which restrictions you are referring to.

> i send you back your manual, and i hope that you can work to remove all
> the support to mac os x, microsoft windows, sun microsystems solaris, ibm
> os/2 ,
> commodore amiga os.
> 
> for any download must be available the own support but can't be mixed in
> the same manual.
> 
> for example if we are using GNU/linux Blag based on GNU/linux Fedora a
> 100% Free Software, we can't find all explained for all the other
> GNU/linux distributions and this is clear.
> 
> if we are using GNU/linux gNewSense we don't need support for GNU/linux
> Blag, if we are using GNU/linux Ututo we don't need support for GNU/linux
> Blag and GNU/linux gNewSense.

None of these distributions are explicitly mentioned in the Privoxy
documentation anyway. Deleting the documentation for other platforms
will not solve this.

> we need a Privoxy manual for every distribution !

Patches welcome.

> awaiting your new manual cleaned and available for *.deb

Don't hold your breath.

Fabian

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