Package: calibre Version: 0.6.54+dfsg-1 Severity: normal
According to http://status.calibre-ebook.com/ the program contacts the upstream author on each start and sends the IP and the program version. The IP is stored. This is a violation of privacy, at least according to german law. Companies like Microsoft are universally criticized if their software is found out to "phone home", and free software should do this right: This feature should be disabled by default, to be enabled by the user like popcon etc. In addition, it should be mentioned in the documentation. Thanks Michael Below -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages calibre depends on: ii calibre-bin 0.6.54+dfsg-1 e-book converter and library manag ii graphicsmagick-image 1.3.5-6 image processing tools providing I ii python 2.5.4-9 An interactive high-level object-o ii python-beautifulsoup 3.1.0.1-2 error-tolerant HTML parser for Pyt ii python-cherrypy3 3.1.2-1 Python web development framework - ii python-cssutils 0.9.6-1 CSS Cascading Style Sheets parser ii python-dateutil 1.4.1-3 powerful extensions to the standar ii python-dbus 0.83.1-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii python-django-taggin 0.3.1-1 A generic tagging application for ii python-encutils 0.9.6-1 Encoding detection collection for ii python-imaging 1.1.7-1+b1 Python Imaging Library ii python-lxml 2.2.6-1 pythonic binding for the libxml2 a ii python-mechanize 0.1.11-1.1 stateful programmatic web browsing ii python-pkg-resources 0.6.10-4 Package Discovery and Resource Acc ii python-pypdf 1.12-3 PDF toolkit implemented solely in ii python-qt4 4.7.3-1 Python bindings for Qt4 ii python2.6 2.6.5-1 An interactive high-level object-o ii ttf-liberation 1.05.2.20091019-4 Fonts with the same metrics as Tim ii xdg-utils 1.0.2+cvs20100307-1 desktop integration utilities from calibre recommends no packages. calibre suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
