Bug#762753: lintian: privacy-breach-generic false positives on <link rel="canonical" href="http://example.com"></link> ?

[Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.27
Severity: normal

Hi,

in nvidia-cuda-doc [non-free] I see a lot of privacy-breach-generic tags
like

  X: nvidia-cuda-doc: privacy-breach-generic usr/share/doc/nvidia-cuda-doc/html/cublas/index.html (http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cublas/index.html)

but I think these are false positives since the only occurrence of the
external ressource URLs is in <link rel="canonical" ... /> elements as
defined by RFC 6596, e.g.

  <link rel="canonical" href="http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cublas/index.html";></link>

As I understand this is only informational and intended for search
engines and the like, but not used (aka loaded) by ordinary web browsers
that just render the local copy (shipped by the package) of the .html
files.


Andreas