On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 03:25:45PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > Policy could include a word of warning about hypertext documentation.
I reported #738176 against lintian because I noticed Debian contributors taking incorrect actions (for eg #738101) based on the lintian tag descriptions. Bastian asked me to come up with some wording for this section of policy, here is a combination of what I have recommended in the lintian bug plus some rationale on privacy and the Social Contract: Local HTML files that use resources (scripts, images, audio, video etc) that are located on remote servers are a privacy breach for users who view them in web browsers. On the other hand many of these remote resources are used for promotion of the upstream projects that Debian contains. Promotion of upstream projects is essential for their continued use and development and is good for Free Software as a whole. The Debian Social Contract suggests we should balance the interests of our users (privacy) with the needs of upstream projects (new users and continued development). The best way to do that is to use local resources instead of remote resources. Please replace any scripts, images or other remote resources used by HTML files in Debian packages with non-remote resources. It is preferable to replace them with text and links but local copies of the remote resources are also acceptable as long as they don't also make calls to remote services or resources. Please ensure that the remote resources are suitable for Debian main before making local copies of them. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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