Isaac Keslassy <[email protected]> writes: > In addition, (7) gnubg will automatically check is there is a newer > gnubg version online.
Would it be possible to provide a way for distribution packagers to set the default for this option to disabled? Debian has users who are extremely sensitive to software reporting their activities to anywhere on the Internet without their explicit consent, so we have a general distribution policy to not enable checks like this by default. (There is unfortunately no way that I know of to check for a newer version without telling some server that someone just ran gnubg.) (That reminds me that I think gnubg is probably also using random.org by default and probably should use /dev/urandom by default instead on Debian.) I'd of course document this change and explain how to turn it back on for anyone who wants it. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
