On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 07:26:37AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 04:25:28PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:16:29AM +0100, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > > >> Speaking as a human being, I would suggest that Debian policy should be > > >> that all "phoning home" MUST be enabled explicitly, and MUST be turned > > >> off by default. > > "should" here would only mean that we've failed to correctly define "phoning > > home".
> So that'd be something like "Packages should not communicate on the > network except as specifically necessary for their functionality. In > particular they must not `phone home' by contacting a central service to > report user statistics back to the author, unless the user specifically > enables that option." ? s/should not/must not/, then yes. :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]