Re: Phoning home
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 01:05:32AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> On su, 2008-02-24 at 16:43 -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> > * The package/software SHOULD offer a way to disable the 'phoning home' code
> > if it contains such kind of 'feature'.
>
> Speaking as a human being, I would suggest that Debian policy should be
> that all "phoning home" MUST be enabled explicitly, and MUST be turned
> off by default.
Yes please! I think this sort of thing could be an acceptable use of
debconf (preferrably at a low priority), so that users who want to
participate can. We hold ourselves to this standard with popcon, so it'd be
consistent to do so.
- David Nusinow
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