Re: Audacity has new administration

[Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>]

Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu> writes:

> Hi Bone Baboon,
>
> thank you for the further info!
>
> Bone Baboon <bone.baboon@disroot.org> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> # On by default telemetry
>>
>> On by default telemetry is being introduced to Audacity.  This 
>> does not
>> comply with the No Malware section of the FSDG.
>> <https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html>
>
> Will be possible to disable Audacity telemetry in our official 
> Guix
> package definition using a build flag or a patch?
>
> AFAIK the answer is yes, this means Audacity Guix package can 
> (easily)
> be "transformed" to be FSDG compliant when (if?) telemetry will 
> be set
> opt-out upstream; if the answer will be no, we should remove the 
> next
> Audacity-with-undisableable-telemetry version.

For reference, that’s what we do for Ardour, which has a benign 
up-to-date? check that is enabled by default and that we remove in 
a patch.  Oddly enough there was no big discussion about any of 
this, perhaps because disabling features like that is pretty 
common and has been done for decades in Debian.

-- 
Ricardo