[vaporary]

I was extremely disappointed to recently learn that visidata(1) phones home, and that this functionality has not been disabled in the Debian package, despite many people requesting its removal:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1001647

https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/discussions/940

[hedora]

The maintainer’s responses in that thread are really frustrating. They just keep describing the bug as though the package’s behavior is acceptable.

I wonder what debian’s process is for dealing with such maintainers.

I hope they make “no phone home” actual policy soon.

[ryandrake]

Infuriating. The developer is just making excuses and refusing to address the users' actual concern. And why are they phoning home in the first place? What is this critical use case that requires this intrusion?

    "This daily count of users is what keeps us working on the project, because otherwise we have feel like we are coding into a void."

So, they wrote code to phone home (by default) and then digging in and defending it... just for their feelings? You've got to be kidding me!