vrms misses several packages

[KarlGoetz]

Binary package hint: vrms

VRMS doesnt catch several potentially non-free packages:
 linux-ubuntu-modules-* - has lots of .fw and .bin files in it (which involve many which look non-free)
 nvidia-kernel-common - description says its binary only files
 linux-image-generic - a depend of l-u-m, so if thats non-free so is this.

root@edubuntu:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu hardy (development branch)
Release: 8.04
Codename: hardy
root@edubuntu:~# apt-cache policy vrms
vrms:
  Installed: 1.13
  Candidate: 1.13
  Version table:
 *** 1.13 0
        500 http://mirror.internode.on.net hardy/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Lucas Cardoso (lcardoso)]

It also misses flashplugin-nonfree. I can confirm this on Hardy Heron 8.04.

[kaerast (kaerast-blogbound)]

vrms uses the Section entry for a package to decide if it is non-free or not. It should detect packages with the following in their section entry as non-free: (non-free|restricted|multiverse)

nvidia-kernel-common should be detected as non-free in current versions since it's section is restricted/x11

linux-ubuntu-modules-* have the section base, and so don't get detected as being non-free. I believe a bug should be filed against these packages rather than vrms.

linux-image-generic is a meta-package, and as such there is nothing inside it to be free or non-free. I don't believe this to be a problem.

flashplugin-nonfree is in the section multiverse/web and so should be detected as non-free.

[Someone561 (someone561)]

This bug seems for me solved in 9.04. vrms use in this version $section =~ /contrib|non-free|restricted|multiverse/).
linux-restricted-modules-*, flashplugin-installer and xorg-driver-fglrx are reported correct.