On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 02:42:58PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > - check for updates of itself > - check for updates of plugins > - send UID, OS, program version, and the icon theme selected in the > program to the statistic site [1]
I file serious bugs when I discover this kind of behaviour in Debian packages. I've come across this only twice, but I've never spent time actually looking, so perhaps there are many more? I was unable to find anything in policy either, but I take the position that, if asked, Debian developers are likely to take a similar position, and it has just never come up because maintainers haven't (as far as I'm aware) objected to treating this behaviour as a serious bug. Has any maintainer specifically objected? Would it be worth trying to gather a list of the occasions that this has taken place to see if a policy change might be warranted? Here are mine: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=778947 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=935042 Robie