Bug#435058: ITP: smolt -- Fedora hardware profiler

[Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>]

On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 09:28:46PM -0400, Ricky Zhou <ricky.zhou@gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Ricky Zhou <ricky.zhou@gmail.com>
> 
> 
> * Package name    : smolt
>   Version         : 0.9.8.3
>   Upstream Author : Mike McGrath <mmcgrath@redhat.com>
> * URL             : https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/smolt/
> * License         : GPL
>   Programming Lang: Python
>   Description     : Fedora hardware profiler
> 
> The Fedora hardware profiler is a server-client system that does a
> hardware scan against a machine and sends the results to a public Fedora
> Project turbogears server.  The sends are anonymous and should not
> contain any private information other than the physical hardware
> information and basic OS info.

What is the added value for Debian users of sending these informations
*to Fedora* ?

Mike