Bug#928055: change "disable-pings" to "no-pings"?

[ilf]

Package: chromium
Version: 74.0.3729.108-1

The HTML Living Standard of the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group specifies Hyperlink auditing AKA "pinging": https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/links.html#hyperlink-auditing

The Debian chromium package tries to disable this by default:

# Disable pinging export CHROMIUM_FLAGS="$CHROMIUM_FLAGS --disable-pings"

https://salsa.debian.org/chromium-team/chromium/raw/master/debian/etc/default-flags

However, the upstream source code uses "no-pings", not "disable-pings":

// Don't send hyperlink auditing pings
const char kNoPings[]                       = "no-pings";

https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc?q=kNoPings&sq=package:chromium&type=cs&l=438

This is also echoed by a Google Software Engineer working on Google, Chrome & Android:

--no-pings
Don't send hyperlink auditing pings

https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/#no-pings



--
ilf

If you upload your address book to "the cloud", I don't want to be in it.

So either I am missing something here, or the Debian package default-flags should replace "disable-pings" with "no-pings".

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