Debian Bug report logs - #531221
okular: Arbitrarily enforces DRM by default

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Package: okular; Maintainer for okular is Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <[email protected]>; Source for okular is src:okular (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: John Goerzen <[email protected]>

Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 00:12:04 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch, wontfix

Found in version kdegraphics/4:4.2.2-2

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From: Modestas Vainius <[email protected]>
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Hello,

On 2009 m. May 31 d., Sunday 15:42:33 Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> - If okular has a system-wide setting "Obey DRM" which acts as a
>   default for user choices, we have already won: the Debian package
>   maintainer is fully in charge of making the choice of what that
>   default should be.
>
> - If it has not, I guess adding support for such system-wide setting
>   should be easy enough to do.
>
> FWIW If I were the package maintainer, my choice would be not to "Obey
> DRM" by default, but I'm not.
Package maintainers have already stated their decision (marked the bug 
wontfix). So there is no need to keep posting to the bug report.

-- 
Modestas Vainius <[email protected]>

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