Bug#690495: Prohibit click-through licenses or disclaimers
Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
> To me, this feels like a specific instance of the general problem of
> excessive maintainer script prompting.
Oh, I see why you didn't class it that way: this isn't something done by
the maintainer scripts, but rather something done by the package itself.
Sorry, I had somehow missed that.
Yes, indeed, the chapter on maintainer scripts doesn't really help with
that. Some similar issues apply, but not all of them (for example, the
problems caused for non-interactive installations aren't an issue, and
that's much of the concern with maintainer script prompting). So we can't
really lean on existing bits of Policy; this would strike out into new
areas.
I think the root question is indeed whether this is the sort of bug (I
would also consider it a bug, although I'm not sure on severity or whether
the package maintainer needs to put a high priority on fixing it) should
be specifically called out in Policy. As Sune mentions, there are a bunch
of closely-related cases (splash screens, first-time wizards, etc.), and
it's kind of hard to see how to draw a clear distinction, at least to me.
I do think this is iffy from a DFSG #7 perspective, since it's forcing the
user to agree to the additional license, but I'm not sure we've ever
discussed that in general.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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