Lars Wirzenius wrote:
On su, 2008-02-24 at 16:43 -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote:
* The package/software SHOULD offer a way to disable the 'phoning home' code
if it contains such kind of 'feature'.
Speaking as a human being, I would suggest that Debian policy should be
that all "phoning home" MUST be enabled explicitly, and MUST be turned
off by default.
No, I prefer the SHOULD form, because it permit the
right thing to be done, giving the debian developer
the freedom (and burden) to check what it is bad, and
what it is acceptable.
Think about:
apt
ntpdate
clamav-freshclam
dcc-client
icewasel
popularity-contest
and IIRC bind will check the root zone.
Some of such project collects statistics.
Eventually in a second step we could change it to MUST,
but before such change I would like to see a common way
to implement this (standardization by usage).
ciao
cate
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