On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 04:25:28PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:16:29AM +0100, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > >> 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. > "should" here would only mean that we've failed to correctly define "phoning > home". So that'd be something like "Packages should not communicate on the network except as specifically necessary for their functionality. In particular they must not `phone home' by contacting a central service to report user statistics back to the author, unless the user specifically enables that option." ? Cheers, aj
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