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.
No, I prefer the SHOULD form, because it permit the right thing to be done, giving the debian developer the freedom (and burden) to check what it is bad, and what it is acceptable. Think about: apt ntpdate clamav-freshclam dcc-client icewasel popularity-contest and IIRC bind will check the root zone. Some of such project collects statistics. Eventually in a second step we could change it to MUST, but before such change I would like to see a common way to implement this (standardization by usage). ciao cate