Bug#738101: RFS: awstats/7.3+dfsg-1
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 6:25 PM, Sergey B Kirpichev wrote:
> This is not clear from the
> http://lintian.debian.org/tags/privacy-breach-donation.html
> -->8--
> Please remove this privacy problem and add a note to the debian/upstream file using the donation field.
> -->8--
> Please, fix lintian text first.
I'll ask for the lintian text to be clarified but there is no reason
not to do the changes properly now, before the clarification is added
to lintian.
> BTW, it's ok to include in the package downloaded images?
Usually they are non-free so that would not be possible.
> Why?
I believe doing so goes against the Social Contract since you are
removing upstream's promotion of their project, which is an important
part of their success. Replacing JavaScript and images with text is in
line with the Social Contract because it balances the needs of users
(privacy) against the needs of upstream projects (continued use and
development).
http://www.debian.org/social_contract
> Ok, I can remove this as well, when lintian could point to this.
Again, there is no need to wait until lintian is updated before fixing
issues. lintian is just a tool to point you at potential problems (and
there are a lot of other such tools), you should use human judgement
and imagination to determine the right thing to do, not blindly follow
it nor ignore problems it doesn't know about yet that bug reporters or
your fellow Debian contributors tell you about.
--
bye,
pabs
http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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