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Re: Debian privacy policy



Hello Ole,

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 05:17:32PM +0100, Ole Streicher wrote:
> for a discussion with upstream (removal of a default "anonymously
> logging home" feature), I would like to have a reference that Debian
> prefers strong privacy (no default logging, even not anonymously) over
> usefullness for upstream. The only point I could find is the "Our
> priorities are our users and free software" point in the Social
> Contract, which is very general and interpretable. The policy seems to
> be silent about this. Did I just not look careful enough?

We have several Lintian warnings connected to privacy (see tags
privacy-breach-*).  Lintian reflects community consensus on packaging
standards as much as policy does.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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