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Re: Privacy policy of packages/softwares installed in Debian

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On Monday 10 June 2019 11:17:04 am tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 06:43:17AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > I'm not a maintainer, just a user.
> >
> > And a instance of the above should result in the instant moving of
> > that package into the non-free category. And put a link to a readme
> > explaining why its contamination by such tracking code has caused
> > its status to be changed, and moved, in the former packages
> > location.
>
> Normally a maintainer just removes such a nasty -- that's what the
> Debian-specific patches are for. But first you have to find it.
>
> Just imagine yourself as a maintainer of (say) 5 packages, 500k lines
> of code each. In your free time. Getting an update every 2 months
> each.
>
> Do you go with a fine comb over each and every changed line of code
> each time?
>
> That's why our maintainers need help. Just saying "Debian Should" is
> not enough help :-)
>
All of that I'm well aware of Tomas. So yes "should" is a bit stronger 
sounding than I intended.  But at my thinkers age, I'd like to think I 
have sense enough left to know my limits.  So I ask.  I am behind the 
curve of any modern language, even bash scripts I wrote 10 years ago can 
be a puzzle when they miss-fire until I've mentally stepped thru them 
several times. Its even personally embarrassing if when I find the why, 
and wonder WIH did I do it that way?

> Cheers
> -- t


Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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Privacy policy of packages/softwares installed in Debian npdflr <npdflr@zoho.com> - 2019-06-08 20:10 +0200
  Re: Privacy policy of packages/softwares installed in Debian Jean-Philippe MENGUAL <jpmengual@debian.org> - 2019-06-09 14:50 +0200
    Re: Privacy policy of packages/softwares installed in Debian npdflr <npdflr@zoho.com> - 2019-06-10 09:30 +0200
      Re: Privacy policy of packages/softwares installed in Debian <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-06-10 10:20 +0200
        Re: Privacy policy of packages/softwares installed in Debian Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-10 12:50 +0200
          Re: Privacy policy of packages/softwares installed in Debian <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-06-10 17:20 +0200
            Re: Privacy policy of packages/softwares installed in Debian Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-10 18:30 +0200
              Re: Privacy policy of packages/softwares installed in Debian John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2019-06-10 19:10 +0200
                Re: Privacy policy of packages/softwares installed in Debian Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-06-10 19:40 +0200
                Re: Privacy policy of packages/softwares installed in Debian npdflr <npdflr@zoho.com> - 2019-06-14 08:30 +0200
                Re: Privacy policy of packages/softwares installed in Debian npdflr <npdflr@zoho.com> - 2019-06-23 11:10 +0200
                Re: Privacy policy of packages/softwares installed in Debian Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-10 19:40 +0200
      Re: Privacy policy of packages/softwares installed in Debian Jean-Philippe MENGUAL <jpmengual@debian.org> - 2019-06-10 13:20 +0200

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