Bug#756879: atanks: please avoid calling home

2014-08-04 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am Sonntag, den 03.08.2014, 10:22 -0300 schrieb Jesse Smith: Many people requested update checks be enabled by default and, as there is no information sent about you and nothing logged, this cannot be a privacy issue. In some way this circumvents Debian's packaging system. On Debian stable

Bug#756879: atanks: please avoid calling home

2014-08-04 Thread Jesse Smith
On 14-08-04 04:23 AM, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Am Sonntag, den 03.08.2014, 10:22 -0300 schrieb Jesse Smith: Many people requested update checks be enabled by default and, as there is no information sent about you and nothing logged, this cannot be a privacy issue. In some way this

Bug#756879: atanks: please avoid calling home

2014-08-03 Thread Jesse Smith
On 14-08-02 09:59 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Jesse Smith jessefrgsm...@yahoo.ca (2014-08-02): I am not sure why you would want to disable update notification. I'd call it basic privacy. How is checking for updates a privacy issue? No information about you or your computer or even your

Bug#756879: atanks: please avoid calling home

2014-08-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Package: atanks Version: 5.5+dfsg-0.1 Severity: important Hi, just noticed when exiting atanks: | A new version, 6.0, is ready for download. | See http://atanks.sourceforge.net for the latest news and downloads. The code seems to live in src/update.cpp's Get_Latest_Version(), and I'd suggest

Bug#756879: atanks: please avoid calling home

2014-08-02 Thread Jesse Smith
On 14-08-02 09:13 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Package: atanks Version: 5.5+dfsg-0.1 Severity: important Hi, just noticed when exiting atanks: | A new version, 6.0, is ready for download. | See http://atanks.sourceforge.net for the latest news and downloads. The code seems to live in

Bug#756879: atanks: please avoid calling home

2014-08-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jesse Smith jessefrgsm...@yahoo.ca (2014-08-02): I am not sure why you would want to disable update notification. I'd call it basic privacy. Especially with a patch to the source code, that seems overkill. If the message bothers you you could just disable update notifications in the Options