requirements and regulations concerning upgrade checks/statistics callback on program start

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi everyone

(please Cc)

are there any requirements or restriction what a program packaged in
Debian is allowed to do when starting up? Calibre is normally doing the
following checks:
- check for updates of itself
- check for updates of plugins
- send UID, OS, program version, and the icon theme selected in the
  program to the statistic site [1]

Which of the above actions are acceptable for Debian/main?

[1] https://calibre-ebook.com/dynamic/calibre-usage

Best

Norbert

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