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Re: Phoning home



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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