blacklist/SYNTAX

The *blacklist.txt files consist of lines in the following format:

    original-package:[libre-replacement]:[ref]:[id]:short-description

where something within [] is optional.

* 'original-package' is the name of the binary package from Arch

* 'libre-replacement' is the name of the binary package that provides
  and replaces the original-package, or empty if there is no
  compatible replacement. The replacement must be compatible for use
  by humans and scripts, e.g. fastjar is not a replacement for zip
  although both solve the same problem. Packages in
  your-freedom_emu-blacklist.txt are not meant to have a replacement.

* 'ref' is one of the keys in the first column in following table:

    debian   : http://bugs.debian.org/
    fsf      : http://libreplanet.org/wiki/List_of_software_that_does_not_respect_the_Free_System_Distribution_Guidelines#
    savannah : https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?
    fedora   : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=
    parabola : https://labs.parabola.nu/issues/

  The URL in the second column in above table, when concatenated with
  the value of the 'id' field should form a valid URL pointing to an issue
  reporting/describing the reason for the package being blacklisted.

  We should prefer FSF refs, since they are easily available for other
  distros.  Hopefully some lines will move from parabola:X to fsf:Y with
  the LibrePlanet wiki linking to the X issue on labs.parabola.nu.

* 'id' refers to a reported bug on the tracker indicated in the 'ref' column
  The URL in the second column in 'ref' table, when concatenated with
  the value of this 'id' field should form a valid URL pointing to an issue
  reporting/describing the reason for the package being blacklisted.

* 'short-description' categorizes original-package with some tags,
  followed by a short verbal explanation. Popular tags are:

    [nonfree]·······This package is blatently non-free software.

    [semifree]······This package is mostly free, but contains some non-free
                    software or documentation.

    [uses-nonfree]··This package depends on, recommends, or otherwise
                    inappropriately integrates with other non-free software
                    or services.

    [branding]······This package has branding needs adjusted; it refers to
                    "Arch" instead of "Parabola", or "Linux" instead of
                    "GNU/Linux", etc.

    [technical]·····This package cannot be imported from Arch because of
                    technical reasons, rather than freedom reasons; this is
                    NOT to do with freedom of privacy issues in the
                    package.  This usually comes down to two things: it
                    must be recompiled against our version of a dependency
                    package, or it must be compiled from source, as we are
                    stricter about that than Arch is.

                    If this tag is present, then either the libre-replacement
                    column should match the the original-package column;
                    or the [FIXME:package] tag should also be present and
                    the libre-replacement column should be empty.

    [FIXME:package] This package has a free replacement, or could be built
                    in a way that is acceptable, but no one has done so yet.

    [FIXME:description] Someone needs to fix the description in blacklist.txt

  To make reporting issues to gnu-linux-libre easier, we should explain
  in the description if the package is blacklisted due to an upstream FSDG
  issue, problem introduced by Arch (e.g. not including required license
  text, adding optional dependency on a non-free package), or just
  branding, dependency or non-freedom-related issues which don't need
  reporting to other distros.