FS#46129 - [ardour] sends data to upstream
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Opened by Ralf Mardorf (Ralf) - Friday, 28 August 2015, 09:27 GMT
Last edited by Ray Rashif (schivmeister) - Wednesday, 20 January 2016, 19:22 GMT
Opened by Ralf Mardorf (Ralf) - Friday, 28 August 2015, 09:27 GMT
Last edited by Ray Rashif (schivmeister) - Wednesday, 20 January 2016, 19:22 GMT
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Hi,
I already build 4.1 from ABS and configured with --no-phone-home. At the moment I build 4.2. Consider to configure with --no-phone-home by default. Debian and Ubuntu build Ardour 4 with --no-phone-home https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ardour3. Nobody using pacman for upgrades needs to get informed about upgrades by Ardour. Some users are not aware that Ardour sends data to upstream. If you don't configure with --no-phone-home by default, at least inform users that Ardour phones home and that they could disable it by rebuilding with --no-phone-home or by editing the config in $HOME. Regards, Ralf |
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Closed by Ray Rashif (schivmeister)
Wednesday, 20 January 2016, 19:22 GMT
Reason for closing: Implemented
Additional comments about closing: Rolled with 4.6.
Wednesday, 20 January 2016, 19:22 GMT
Reason for closing: Implemented
Additional comments about closing: Rolled with 4.6.
As for why this wasn't made known explicitly: we package the software as-is and I saw no point. At one time I did include a post-install message pointing users to the donate page, because that's what upstream likes. After moving to the github releases, I stopped including any message.
Nevertheless, since you have expressed concerns as a user and this is GPL software (we can do what we like even if upstream dislikes), I will disable this flag from 4.2 onwards. The "support" is no longer relevant anyway since we do not use the binaries.
please build with --no-phone-home.
$ pacman -Q ardour
ardour 4.4-2
Ardour 4 > Help > About > Config > Phone home: True
$ grep configure -A6 /var/abs/extra/ardour/PKGBUILD
python2 waf configure --prefix=/usr \
--configdir=/etc \
--with-backends="jack,alsa" \
--libjack=weak \
--optimize \
--docs \
--cxx11
Regards,
Ralf