Jose Luis Rivas Contreras a écrit :
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Alexander Mieland escribió:
Am Wednesday 13 September 2006 05:27 schrieb Jose Luis Rivas Contreras:
tags 387214 upstream
thanks
Filipus Klutiero escribió:
Package: list
Version: 1.9.92-1
Severity: wishlist
list first asks
[...]
If you continue, the following data will be transmitted:
[...]
- the complete kernel configuration (.config)
- the complete list of loaded kernel modules (lsmod)
- the complete X11 configuration
[...]
Is it ok for me to transfer this data to linux-stats.org?
and then
Am I allowed to collect and send your kernel configuration (.config)?
,
Am I allowed to collect and send the list of the loaded kernel
modules? and
Am I allowed to collect and send your X11 configuration (xorg.conf)?
This is redundant.
Thank you very much, I'm already sending this to the upstream.
I've just got this very first email from the debian bugtracking system
which seems to be sent to inform me that there is a question about why
list asks twice for the confirmation to sent data.
Well the first question is a general question for confirmation if list is
allowed to send data, whatever data would be needed.
The second question (the second three questions) is specially for these
three things (kernel, modules and x11 config), because these things are
also security related things where some people are very afraid and careful
to send such things.
I've added these many question on purpose. Because it is better to ask
someone several times to send dangerous data instead of not asking at all,
isn't it? The user has to be absolutly sure that he is willing to give
this data away.
I generally understand that. However, it is *not* better to ask several
times an important question just because it's an important question. If
you think the question, or the three last points, need to be emphasized,
you could use colors, capitalization or other means to attract the
user's attention. Also, there is a middleland between asking twice and
not asking...namely asking once.
And by the way, you can automatically answer all questions with the
appropriate switch, see the --help for information about that.
ps: Sorry for my bad english, I'm not a native english speaker.
Sincerely
Alexander 'dma147' Mieland
Thank you very much for your explanation Alexander, then I will proceed
to close this bug if this topic is cleared, I will wait a week for
closing this bug.
Jose, thank you for your patience before closing this bug and your quick
answers to bug reports (it doesn't even need to be so fast ;) ).
I replied to Alexander above. If my reply doesn't convince
you/Alexander, please avoid closing this bug, but simply tag it
"wontfix" for now.
Thank you
