Same here, no idea why this x-post over so mayn addresses...
Am Freitag, dem 10.09.2021 um 04:05 -0700 schrieb Felix Lechner:
>
> > 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.
>
> I believe Debian users have a reasonable expectation to read static
> files on their own storage media without being monitored. That
> objection is based on my own everyday experience in working to improve
> Debian, the Golden rule [2] and item #4 of Debian's social contract
> ("Our priorities are our users"). [2]
If you are *that* concerned about the privacy breaches created by websites
contacting servers you have already configured your whole system to deal with
that. And then this whole thing here does not add any value. It also doesn't
add much value to other users less concerned either, because we only change a
few HTML sites while they are still tracked by hundreds of cookies while
browsing websites or reading mails.
It just creates burden on fellow developers. While we have often found
reasonable solutions (e.g. packaging javascript libraries and using them
instead of web resources), I don't think this here is one of them. IIRC I got
this error because of a donation request a software author made in their
software using an icon at an online resource. I am not willing to remove or
cripple that. If you are, well, then better come up with a solution for these
cases.
FTR: What I see is not users requesting this. What I see is a small group of
developers which made that their objective and try to enforce that objective by
misusing lintian to produce error messages instead of messages with a justified
priority.
>
[..]
> I will likely close this bug without action.
Well, then I bring this to the TC's attention. I believe your actions aren't
justified.
Regards, Daniel
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