Package: lintian Severity: wishlist The new lintian privacy tags are leading to inappropriate solutions (please see #738101 for an example of that) being added to packages by potentially maintainers following the existing tag descriptions. I would recommend adding the text below text to each privacy breach tag. The last sentence could be removed for any of the sites that are known to have DFSG-free remote resources (like Piwik). I believe the current text goes against the Social Contract since you are some interpret the text as encouraging removing things help upstream promotion their projects, which is an important part of their success. Replacing JavaScript and images with text/links is in line with the Social Contract because it balances the needs of users (privacy) against the needs of upstream projects (new users and continued development). Please replace any scripts, images or other remote resources with non-remote resources. It is preferrable to replace them with text and links but local copies of the remote resources are also acceptable as long as they don't also make calls to remote services. Please ensure that the remote resources are suitable for Debian main before making local copies of them. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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