Re: Phoning home
Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> writes:
> 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.
Ian's original wording deals with more edge cases, such as apt's
sources.list (which is not turned off by default, at least by definitions
of default that I'm comfortable with).
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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