Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > For the same reason I don't play into facebook's hand with handing them > all the linking informations they would like to know (even if some > people seem to be personally offended when not being linked). People do > contact random people that they find being attached to some package, > even remotely. > > A clean example: I did the security upload for dokuwiki to backports > because adn had some issues with his systems. Now random people come > along and ask for this and that feature improvement and for sponsoring > uploads of newer version, where I just were interested in closing the > security issue for backports users in the first place. Νever happened to me but fair enough.
> Other people might have other reasons, and even if one can't see them > doesn't mean that they aren't valid nor aren't there. It's even a bit > depressing to actually have to argument *why* one wants to keep their > privacy - people all around the world brag around with the "nothing to > hide" slogan for breaching others people's privacy. Sure, I can't argue with that. If you feel that it violates your privacy then it probably does. Nevertheless, I think it's useful to the discussion to refer to some real-world scenarios on how it affects people and be more specific about the privacy problems. Thanks for sharing. Regards, Faidon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4b8e5f2a.9060...@debian.org
