Re: Phoning home
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 07:26:37AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> 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." ?
s/should not/must not/, then yes. :)
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