Thanks for consulting us, Sergio, before proceeding. On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 11:47:40AM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 03:55:17PM -0500, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote: > > As I said in the announcement message, I have proposed a Merge Request > > against elfutils in order to enable the automatic usage of our > > debuginfod server. I know that there are people who are not comfortable > > with having a debugger consult a remote server "behind their backs", so > > a possible mitigation to this issue would be to have a debconf question > > asking whether the user wants to enable system-wide debuginfod usage or > > not. > > The other option is that the application asks before downloading > each time. I would prefer Kurt's option. Network silence is important. Network noise would probably be a bug. A sysadmin should not be made to take special precautions to avoid the inadvertent disclosure of the user's presence on the network. This question is an overall question of clean operating-system design: concerns are to be separated. Debugging and networking are separate spheres of administration. To conflate the two would probably be an error. As far as debconf goes, the fewer questions, the better.
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