to, 2007-09-27 kello 10:21 +1000, Ben Finney kirjoitti: > Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > However if an upstream author of a package wishes to conceal their > > address, I think we should honour that. > > This is at odds with "always have correct contact information for the > copyright holder at the time of packaging", which I think Debian > should strive to achieve for the sake of its users.
I'm afraid I have to disagree with that. Obfuscation which can easily be reversed by a human, but not so easily by a computer, does not render contact information incorrect. If I write my e-mail address as follows, it's still correct: "My full name is Lars Ivar Wirzenius, and you can send me e-mail by taking my initials and putting them in front of the at sign and iki.fi after it." Mind you, I don't like obfuscation, and I think it's a nuisance myself, but we shouldn't violate people's wish to try to avoid spam by publishing their addresses in un-obfuscated form. That only makes people angry at us for little or no benefit, since there are no situations when we want to automatically send e-mails to upstream developers anyway. > The only way to honour "conceal their address" at the same time as the > above is to not distribute the package at all. I don't think that's a > good solution. I don't think there is any requirement to have any upstream contact information whatsoever in order to be able to distribute a package. -- Close your mind to stress and pain, hack till you're no longer sane. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
