Bug#990737: Audacity's new privacy policy may need to be addressed

[martin f krafft]

Regarding the following, written by "Paul Wise" on 2021-07-06 at 11:30 Uhr 
+0800:
IIRC the telemetry is off by default when building from source and only 
the official upstream binaries are affected.


Can confirm. I should have been explicit: check that the telemetry 
code is DFSG, or if it's not, switch to the fork.


Thanks Paul,

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Bug#990737: Audacity's new privacy policy may need to be addressed

[Paul Wise]

On Tue, 6 Jul 2021 11:47:40 +1200 martin f krafft wrote:

> This may need addressing in the Debian packaging, i.e. in addition 
> to ensuring that the data collection is off by default, maybe the 
> whole tracking code needs to be removed?

IIRC the telemetry is off by default when building from source and only
the official upstream binaries are affected.

There is a fork that removes the telemetry code:

https://github.com/temporary-audacity/audacity

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Bug#990737: Audacity's new privacy policy may need to be addressed

[martin f krafft]

Package: audacity
Severity: important
Tags: upstream

Not yet in the archive I don't think, but flagging this here:

https://www.audacityteam.org/about/desktop-privacy-notice/

This may need addressing in the Debian packaging, i.e. in addition 
to ensuring that the data collection is off by default, maybe the 
whole tracking code needs to be removed?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=en_NZ, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_NZ:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages audacity depends on:
ii  audacity-data 2.4.2~dfsg0-4
ii  libavcodec58  7:4.3.2-0+deb11u1
ii  libavformat58 7:4.3.2-0+deb11u1
ii  libavutil56   7:4.3.2-0+deb11u1
ii  libc6 2.31-12
ii  libexpat1 2.2.10-2
ii  libflac++6v5  1.3.3-2
ii  libflac8  1.3.3-2
ii  libgcc-s1 10.2.1-6
ii  libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0   2.42.2+dfsg-1
ii  libglib2.0-0  2.66.8-1
ii  libgtk-3-03.24.24-4
ii  libid3tag00.15.1b-14
ii  liblilv-0-0   0.24.12-2
ii  libmad0   0.15.1b-10
ii  libogg0   1.3.4-0.1
ii  libportaudio2 19.6.0-1.1
ii  libportsmf0   0.1~svn20101010-5
ii  libsndfile1   1.0.31-1
ii  libsoundtouch12.2+ds1-2
ii  libsoxr0  0.1.3-4
ii  libstdc++610.2.1-6
ii  libsuil-0-0   0.10.10-1
ii  libtwolame0   0.4.0-2
ii  libvamp-hostsdk3v52.10.0-1
ii  libvorbis0a   1.3.7-1
ii  libvorbisenc2 1.3.7-1
ii  libvorbisfile31.3.7-1
ii  libwxbase3.0-0v5  3.0.5.1+dfsg-2
ii  libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-0v5  3.0.5.1+dfsg-2

audacity recommends no packages.

Versions of packages audacity suggests:
pn  ladspa-plugin  

-- no debconf information


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