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primus - only useful with bumblebee
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Package primus has as sole purpose to offload OpenGL processing to a secondary graphics card more powerful than the primary one.
Only known use of primus, and how it is packaged for Debian, is in tight connection with bumblebee for use with specific NVIDIA graphics cards.

Proposed solution: Drop

Event Timeline

mladen created this task.May 8 2017, 07:16
mladen updated the task description. (Show Details)May 12 2017, 15:08
mladen updated the task description. (Show Details)May 16 2017, 11:23
zlatan.todoric closed this task as Resolved.May 20 2017, 03:39

bumblebee is free software (bumblebee-nvidia is not but we don't have and I patched bumblebee to not have it). primus is also free software unless proven otherwise.

mak lowered the priority of this task from 95 to Freedom Issue.Aug 18 2017, 22:10
jonas.smedegaard renamed this task from [FREEDOM ISSUE] primus to [FREEDOM ISSUE] primus - only useful with bumblebee (which is only useful with non-free NVIDIA driver).Oct 21 2017, 06:30
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jonas.smedegaard reopened this task as Open.Oct 21 2017, 06:34

I disagree with closing this issue: Bumblebee is in Debian main because Debian covers free _licensing_ but not indirect promotion of non-free stuff.

According to its package description, the sole purpose of bumblebee package is to enable the use of non-free NVIDIA driver.

jonas.smedegaard closed this task as Resolved.Oct 21 2017, 10:22

Looking closer, Bumblebee seemingly also supports the free nouveau driver, so is indeed Free (by our current threshold of freedoms).

jonas.smedegaard renamed this task from [FREEDOM ISSUE] primus - only useful with bumblebee (which is only useful with non-free NVIDIA driver) to [FREEDOM ISSUE] primus - only useful with bumblebee.Oct 21 2017, 10:22
jonas.smedegaard renamed this task from [FREEDOM ISSUE] primus - only useful with bumblebee to primus - only useful with bumblebee.Oct 24 2017, 05:57
jonas.smedegaard removed a parent task: T231: nil.
jonas.smedegaard added a subscriber: jonas.smedegaard.
jonas.smedegaard changed the task status from Resolved to Invalid.Nov 10 2017, 06:17

Status "invalid" more accurate than "closed".