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BonusPlay | 9 months ago

Not the best name for the article. My first guess was version changes, or software being added/removed from repo. Turns out this is about source code modification.

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alias_neo|9 months ago

As a native (British) English speaker, I was also unclear until reading the article.

Personally, I believe s/change/modify would make more sense, but that's just my opinion.

That aside, I'm a big fan of Debian, it has always "felt" quieter as a distro to me compared to others, which is something I care greatly about; and it's great to see that removing of calling home is a core principle.

All the more reason to have a more catchy/understandable title, because I believe the information in those short and sweet bullet points are quite impactful.

pabs3|9 months ago

Patching out privacy issues isn't in Debian Policy, its just part of the culture of Debian, but there are still unfixed/unfound issues too, it is best to run opensnitch to mitigate some of those problems.

https://wiki.debian.org/PrivacyIssues

twic|9 months ago

I understood what it meant immediately, but i think only because i already knew that Debian are infamous for doing this.

mnw21cam|9 months ago

Me too. I was hoping for an explanation of why the software I have got used to and works very well and isn't broken keeps being removed from Debian in the next version because it is "unmaintained".