Bug#726998: [debian-policy] any news ? Lintian implement some check now

[Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:38:05PM +0000, bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
>> any new of this ?
>>
>> Lintian 2.6.20 detect this kind of problem now.
>
> What is the name of the lintian tag ?

See http://lintian.debian.org/tags/privacy-breach-generic.html
and http://lintian.debian.org/tags/privacy-breach-google-adsense.html

Note that this only a partial scan. Lintian will get more result in
the next few days

> Could you provide example of package affected ?

For instance freetype that get my ip to pledgie.com

Bastien
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
>
> Imagine a large red swirl here.