Bug#823347: virtualbox-guest-additions-iso: Checks for updates without user consent or configurability

2016-05-06 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
control: tags -1 moreinfo control: tags -1 wontfix Hi, some questions: 1) how can you be sure that it calls home and it doesn't instead ask the host about its version? In my opinion it doesn't do remote calls, in my experience I saw that message days after the upstream release, and always

Bug#823347: virtualbox-guest-additions-iso: Checks for updates without user consent or configurability

2016-05-03 Thread qazwsxedc
Package: virtualbox-guest-additions-iso Version: 5.0.16-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? The Virtualbox guest additions appear to include functionality which "phones home" and checks for updates being available, then notifies the user about them if any are.