Bug#736381: developers-reference: add Steam subscriptions to the list of goodies offered to Debian Developers
Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> writes:
> On 23/01/2014 00:05, Paul Wise wrote:
>> I have updated the patch to encourage Debian members to not install
>> Steam on their Debian development machines. I think it is reasonable
>> for Debian members to install proprietary games on machines they don't
>> use for Debian development though.
> I do not believe that policy has ever proscribed that a developer must
> keep their development machine in one state or another, and I think it's
> a bad idea to start doing so. For this reason I much prefer the first
> version of the patch you submitted, personally.
Agreed.
Also, I don't really understand the threat model here. While it's
theoretically possible that Valve could insert Trojan code into their
games to take over the system of a Debian uploader, that seems a bit
far-fetched. Certainly, I would say that any Debian contributor who is
running a web browser on their development system is already accepting
more security risk than would be added by installing games from Steam.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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