I'm not sure why this x-post over a dozen addresses, but if you wish so... Am Freitag, dem 10.09.2021 um 13:56 +0200 schrieb Bill Allombert: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 04:05:32AM -0700, Felix Lechner wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > The severity chosen for these tags/checks is not justified by any of our > > > policies, neither the Debian policy, not the best packaging practises nor > > > any legal reason! > > > > > > There is no technical nor social justification for this severity. > > > > > > making our package compliant to this new privacy-policy doesn't add > > > any value to our users. [snip] > Thanks for taking this stance. Phoning home without the user consent has > always been treated as a RC bug. Please provide examples. > Lintian errors do not by themselves create more work to package > maintainers since they can be ignored, a) This is untrue. To put packages through NEW they have to be lintian clean. b) So what you are saying is, that I can ignore these? So then WHY make this a serious offense then? Why not downgrade the severity as I have requested? Again: The severity is not backed up by any of our policies. Please proove your point if you disagree. Instead it is IMHO a personal objective that is forced onto developers by a severity that is not justified by our policy. And once again: What is the sense and what right do we have to remove donation requests just because they use icons of paypal/patreon/github/whatever which we cannot distribute? > instead they present an > advance warning of a potential bug report about privacy violation, > which can save time unless the maintainers plan was to hide the issue > under the carpet which contradict SC #3 "we will not hide problems". This rule of the SC refers to something completely different. Please don't misuse the SC for your personal objectives. But JFTR: Ignoring this bug report with the other one for 7 years smells a lot more like "hiding/ignoring the issue". Neither of the reports requested to remove the affected tags. It was requested to lower the severity as the chosen severity is not justified. Regards, Daniel
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