Re: Servers going online automatically?
On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 08:44:22PM +0000, Vesa Paatero wrote:
> On Sunday, December 6, 2015 7:43 PM, Marc Haber <mh+debian-policy@zugschlus.de> wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 05, 2015 at 08:27:56PM +0000, Vesa Paatero wrote:
> >
> > > Now, I am not expecting to get that policy changed just like that but
> > > would it be a good idea to mandate some documentation, perhaps a
> > > notification to the package description, for those packages that
> > > expose such an interface to the world without user interaction?>
> >
> > How many of our _DEFAULTS_ do you expect us to document in all package
> > descriptions affected by that _DEFAULT_?
>
>
> I understand. But maybe documenting such "affecting defaults" could
> make sense if they were expressed as flags of some sort so that they
> wouldn't make the descriptions too long. For example, text "[SERVER]"
> at the bottom of the description could indicate that package
> establishes a server on your computer -- and then all those bracketed
> flags in use would be explained on some web page.
Don't we already have a debtag to do so?
Greetings
Marc
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