Package: amsn Version: 0.97-3 Severity: normal Today amsn informed me after startup, that a "new version is available". (The box says in Spanish: "Nueva versión 0.97.1 disponible para descarga [Change log] [aMSN homepage] [x] dontaskweek"). IMHO, amsn as shipped by Debian should not check nor inform users about new versions, if they don't explicitly ask for that (e.g. by means of debian/watch). Why?
1. It is a privacy breach. The program connects without my knowledge or consent to a website and I don't know, what information they exchange. Note, that e.g. popcon defaults to off and needs to explicitly switched on. 2. It counterfeits the whole idea of having amsn packaged by the distribution. Esp. if I run stable, I want only updates, that are well integrated in my system and tested by the package maintainer and my trusted source of packages. 2a. Worse, if the Debian user is not the admin of their system, and does not even know what packages are. They all will call the admin and ask for the new version. Poor admin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
