On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 10:04:26PM +0200, Federico Brega wrote:
> In the meantime lintian started to warn about a new privacy-breach-generic:
It was there from the beginning though:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2017/08/ msg00048.html
> the package contains an html file which uses Open Layers and has the option
> to show the Google Maps tiles. This obviously involves using the Google
> Maps service. The usage of this tile is explicitly described as part of the
> Google Maps service so I think it's up to the user to use this service and
> trust Google or not use it.
>
> I think that every user should be free to chose the service it wants, so
> I'd propose to override this warning. The other viable alternative I see is
> to have a Debian patch to disable the Google Maps tiles and use only Open
> Street Map.