Bug#898479: [gnome] gnome-software should detach fwupd as a dependency

2018-05-12 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 10:45 AM, kardan wrote: >> What is your exact privacy concern and why is it so important that it >> outweighs our users having outdated firmware for their hardware, some >> with potential known security vulnerabilities? > > A service hosted by amazon may not meet the high s

Bug#898479: [gnome] gnome-software should detach fwupd as a dependency

2018-05-12 Thread kardan
> What is your exact privacy concern and why is it so important that it > outweighs our users having outdated firmware for their hardware, some > with potential known security vulnerabilities? A service hosted by amazon may not meet the high standards for FOSS. My intention is to make the content

Bug#898479: [gnome] gnome-software should detach fwupd as a dependency

2018-05-12 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 9:24 AM, kardan wrote: > gnome-software depends on libfwupd2 and suggests fwupd. On a fresh > stretch Yes, a library is different than a service. > I read his answers and including the reaction to add a dialogue for > Redhat. Why doesn't Debian request something similar a

Bug#898479: [gnome] gnome-software should detach fwupd as a dependency

2018-05-12 Thread kardan
fwupd consists of > fwupd - Firmware update daemon > fwupd-doc - Firmware update daemon documentation (HTML format) > fwupd-tests - Test suite for firmware update daemon > gir1.2-fwupd-2.0 - GObject introspection data for libfwupd > libfwupd-dev - development files for libfwupd > libfwupd2 - Firm

Bug#898479: [gnome] gnome-software should detach fwupd as a dependency

2018-05-12 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 8:00 AM, kardan wrote: > gnome-software depends on fwupd which triggers web requests containing > "client user-agent, IP address, timestamp, OS distribution name and OS > version to fwupd.org upon each firmware downloading process (or > checking for firmware updates manuall

Bug#898479: [gnome] gnome-software should detach fwupd as a dependency

2018-05-12 Thread Michael Biebl
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo Am 12.05.2018 um 14:00 schrieb kardan: > Package: gnome > Severity: normal > > gnome-software depends on fwupd which triggers web requests containing > "client user-agent, IP address, timestamp, OS distribution name and OS > version to fwupd.org upon each firmware down

Bug#898479: [gnome] gnome-software should detach fwupd as a dependency

2018-05-12 Thread kardan
Package: gnome Severity: normal gnome-software depends on fwupd which triggers web requests containing "client user-agent, IP address, timestamp, OS distribution name and OS version to fwupd.org upon each firmware downloading process (or checking for firmware updates manually by the user)" withou