On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 12:17 AM, Ole Streicher wrote: > a reference that Debian prefers strong privacy
AFAICT we don't have an official statement about this, but: https://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2008/02/msg00060.html https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/[email protected] https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/[email protected] https://www.debian.org/vote/2016/vote_004 Policy says: For packages in the main archive, no required [debian/rules] targets may attempt network access. https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-debianrules My personal opinion is that Debian policy should be: Debian packages must respect sysadmin and user privacy and encourage sysadmins and users to respect the privacy of everyone. So, disabled by default, informed consent and don't manipulate people into destroying their privacy with click-through stuff. Some discussion of click-through culture is in the recent episode of FaiF: http://faif.us/cast/2016/nov/01/0x5E/ -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
