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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Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:

> FWIW If I were the package maintainer, my choice would be not to "Obey
> DRM" by default, but I'm not.

Interestingly enough, we patch this stuff out of xpdf already, for
presumably the same reasons.  evince either never had it, or it is
patched out in Debian.  I would be happy with us patching okular to
simply have a different default on Debian.

In any case, I think it was very premature to tag this wontfix.  There
are many trivial things you could do to improve the situation, in order
of preference:

1) Remove the DRM feature entirely

2) Patch the default to have it disabled

3) Patch the prompt to have an "allow/deny" option

4) Patch the text to tell people where to go to turn it off

#2 and #4 especially should be exceptionally trivial patches.

Why are you tagging it wontfix, Sune?

-- John




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