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default action
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regarding popularity-contest: Participate is not the default action
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.48
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
Hello, actually when installing Debian people is asked to participate to popcon
or not. The default action is to not participate. I think this makes popcon
lose a lot of users because they don't even read the page about popcon, and I
think this applies to most of the desktop/first users. If people is really
aware of any privacy and networks issues about using popcon, they will then
choose the right option. I would like to propose to make participating the
default action.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.30 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.15.5.6 Debian package management system
Versions of packages popularity-contest recommends:
ii cron 3.0pl1-108 process scheduling daemon
ii esmtp-run [mail-transport-age 1.2-3 user configurable relay-only MTA -
Versions of packages popularity-contest suggests:
ii anacron 2.3-14 cron-like program that doesn't go
-- debconf information:
popularity-contest/submiturls:
* popularity-contest/participate: true
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--- Begin Message ---
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 07:49:50AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Luca Bruno ([email protected]):
> > Package: popularity-contest
> > Version: 1.48
> > Severity: normal
> > Tags: d-i
> >
> > Hello, actually when installing Debian people is asked to participate to
> > popcon
> > or not. The default action is to not participate. I think this makes popcon
> > lose a lot of users because they don't even read the page about popcon, and
> > I
> > think this applies to most of the desktop/first users. If people is really
> > aware of any privacy and networks issues about using popcon, they will then
> > choose the right option. I would like to propose to make participating the
> > default action.
>
> This has been debated many times and the privacy concerns have always
> been the winning option.
>
> I think anyway that such decision (that affects the default behaviour
> of newly installed systems) should be taken outside the popcon
> maintenance team and first be discussed in -devel.
>
> But don't expect consensus....and without consensus, the conservative
> option wins.
Hello Luca,
I agree with Christian. Debian has always strived to preserve user privacy by
default.
The current setting ensure users make an informed choice of participating to
popcon.
If a user would activate popcon without noticing it and then detect that their
computer
is "phoning home", their trust in Debian would be shaken.
Closing this report,
Cheers,
--
Bill. <[email protected]>
Imagine a large red swirl here.
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