Bug#738101: RFS: awstats/7.3+dfsg-1
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
> 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.
I hope, that's fixed in:
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/awstats.git;a=commit;h=9c8f27ceb7f9490387a32b9fb2f45b21f69f853d
>> Why? It's clearly stated in the lintian docs:
>> http://lintian.debian.org/tags/privacy-breach-facebook.html
>> -->8--
>> Please remove these scripts or frames.
>> -->8--
>
> 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.
Could you kindly provide a more detailed *technical*
suggestion in this case (facebook patch)?
> > 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
It's not reasonable to believe, that every maintainer would read all
provided in the package *.html files in a regular way to find and fix
such problems. Without automation - it's just a waste of time.
btw, I think google/twitter problems are gone in the last upload:
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/awstats.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/2007_googleplus.patch
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/awstats.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/2008_twitter.patch
https://mentors.debian.net/package/awstats
was updated.
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