2017-10-13 22:14 GMT+02:00 Andrey Rahmatullin <w...@debian.org>:

> 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
>

My bad I haven't noticed it until now.


> > 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.


Is my proposal of adding a lintian override Ok?
--
Federico

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