Bug#961501: remmina is calling home for update notifications

2020-05-28 Thread Andre Heider
On Wed, 27 May 2020 08:51:40 +0200 Antenore Gatta wrote: Hi all, patch is on its way. Progress can be tracked on our gitlab [0] Any feedback is much appreciated as it'll easy the resolution of the bug. Thanks! Kind regards Antenore - [0]

Bug#961501: remmina is calling home for update notifications

2020-05-27 Thread Antenore Gatta
Hi all, patch is on its way. Progress can be tracked on our gitlab [0] Any feedback is much appreciated as it'll easy the resolution of the bug. Thanks! Kind regards Antenore - [0] https://gitlab.com/Remmina/Remmina/-/merge_requests/2066

Bug#961501: remmina is calling home for update notifications

2020-05-26 Thread Mike Gabriel
On Di 26 Mai 2020 10:00:56 CEST, Antenore Gatta wrote: [...] Thanks for your understanding on this issue, Antenore. Much appreciated. I prefere to relase a clean and cleaned 1.4.6 version than playing with workaround patches that may introduce other bugs Yeah, I think getting this fixed

Bug#961501: remmina is calling home for update notifications

2020-05-26 Thread Antenore Gatta
Hi Mike, Thanks for your detailed answer. On Monday, May 25, 2020 11:55:00 PM CEST Mike Gabriel wrote: > Debian users expect from Debian, to be a safe harbour, so all package > maintainers are requested to patch out code that does unwanted / > uncontrollable connections to the internet for

Bug#961501: remmina is calling home for update notifications

2020-05-26 Thread Antenore Gatta
Hi Mike, Thanks for your detailed answer. On Monday, May 25, 2020 11:55:00 PM CEST Mike Gabriel wrote: > Debian users expect from Debian, to be a safe harbour, so all package > maintainers are requested to patch out code that does unwanted / > uncontrollable connections to the internet for

Bug#961501: remmina is calling home for update notifications

2020-05-25 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi Antenore, Thanks for the quick reply. On Mo 25 Mai 2020 15:24:44 CEST, Antenore Gatta wrote: Hi Christoph, Upstream developer… I think it's a bit exaggerated to say that is a privacy violation. Debian users expect from Debian, to be a safe harbour, so all package maintainers are

Bug#961501: remmina is calling home for update notifications

2020-05-25 Thread Antenore Gatta
Hi Christoph, Upstream developer… I think it's a bit exaggerated to say that is a privacy violation. We just get a plain text file from https://remmina.org (e.g. https:// remmina.org/news/remmina_news.php?ver=1.4.5) with the new changelog. Remmina on a regular basis verify if there's a new

Bug#961501: remmina is calling home for update notifications

2020-05-25 Thread Christoph Berg
Package: remmina Version: 1.4.3+dfsg-2 Severity: grave Hi, this is the second time I've gotten an "What's new in Remmina" popup window out of the blue (i.e. not while actually using it, it's just sitting in the background at the moment). I suspect it is calling home, which would be a gross