On 25/08/2015 08:44, Ole Streicher wrote: > Hi all, > > What is the best way to keep these data up to date in Debian? An > automated process as written in the pull request [1] is probably not the > right way, since it is a potential privacy violation. One could let the > user manually start the download. However, then he has to keep track of > all these little updates himself (or be educated enough to write > cronjobs, or re-enable the automatic download, which is more that one > could expect from an average scientist). Should one use debconf to ask > the user if he wants automatic updates here? Hi Ole,
On the privacy front, I think we probably need to come up with a mechanism with Debian for recording / signaling these issues to the user, so a user can make a decision. As a project, we can look at what we do for users privacy. One principle to follow on cases like this is "keep requests local". Rather than have it broadcast over the whole of the 'net (and any monitored traffic points), request data from as local as possible and make it cachable. If the data comes via a local squid cache, etc. or local CDN then the visibility is much reduced. best regards Alastair > Best regards > > Ole > > [1] https://github.com/astroplanners/astroplan/pull/67 > -- Alastair McKinstry, <alast...@sceal.ie>, <mckins...@debian.org>, https://diaspora.sceal.ie/u/amckinstry Misentropy: doubting that the Universe is becoming more disordered.
