I think we all understand the direction here, Jeremy. You don't care about non-paying users.
I'm not sure what being an Ubuntu Member means any more but what the point if part of that isn't speaking out when there's a problem, and I have to say that removing freedoms from users is about as big a problem as it gets for FOSS, especially when the leverage is commercial gain. What situation or mechanism are we imagining where somebody on an ubuntu-minimal base can't apt install ubuntu-advantage-tools if they want ubuntu-advantage-tools? I've no problem with it being bundled in, an installer question, but as soon as you say "oh you can't get rid of that", you're not compliant to me. You're telling me what I can and can't do with my installation, and for no good reason. I'm writing this now because I've had pushback from client netadmins demanding to know why these installations are individually phoning home on a regular basis. Yes I have sensitive clients, they do sensitive work. So now I have a choice, I either have to hack around your work to botch it and hope that an update doesn't fix it, or we can't use Ubuntu. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-meta in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1930914 Title: ubuntu-minimal depends on ubuntu-advantage-tools Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: This is counter to #1566183 There is no reason to enforce desktop users who manage machine on their own to install ubuntu-advantage- tools, especially when this is 'minimal' version. This should include only essential packages to make the OS functional ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: ubuntu-minimal 1.450.2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-73.82-lowlatency 5.4.106 Uname: Linux 5.4.0-73-lowlatency x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.18 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: skip Date: Fri Jun 4 18:54:56 2021 InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-01-29 (491 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Release amd64 (20191017) SourcePackage: ubuntu-meta UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-06-27 (342 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/1930914/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
