Re: Phoning home

[Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>]

Harald Braumann writes ("Re: Phoning home"):
> I, as a user, don't want to be warned, informed, asked or annoyed
> in any other way about things that I don't want anyway. If I want to
> send information I enable that explicitly.

Quite.

I think it's fair enough for popularity-contest to ask its question,
once for the whole system.

I think it would be fine to make the answer be more than yes/no, eg
to give up to about four options:
   No data collection
   Only information about which packages are installed
   Also aggregated statistical information useful to the developers
   I do not care about privacy

Individual packages could have debconf questions too, provided they're
at low priority and take their default from the popcon question.  So
meshlab would have its own question but it would not normally be
asked.

Ian.