[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#859934: Bug#859934: enable captive portal checking by default

[Michael Biebl]

Am 09.04.2017 um 14:47 schrieb Michael Biebl:

> This feature could be considered "phoning-home", so I'm a bit concerned
> in that regard indeed and do not want to enable it unconditionally and
> globally for everyone. If this config is shipped in a separate package,
> which can be installed (and uninstalled) on demand (and which e.g. the
> gnome-core or gnome meta package could depend on), would be a reasonable
> compromise I guess.
> 
> Fedora named this package NetworkManager-config-connectivity-fedora,
> shipping /usr/lib/NetworkManager/conf.d/20-connectivity-fedora.conf. The
> package is installed by default in a F25 workstation desktop.
> 
> Afair, Ubuntu had/has similar plans. Jeremy, can you comment on that?

I remember that I discussed that briefly with Jeremy on IRC. Such a
separate binary package (even if tiny) seems like an approach to me
which I'd be fine with.

I found this after a bit of searching:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/997200
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2017-February/039696.html

Next step would be to decide, how we name things, i.e. if we choose
different names for Ubuntu and Debian, like
network-manager-config-connectivity-debian and
network-manager-config-connectivity-ubuntu (quite the mouthful)
or an unbranded name like
network-manager-config-connectivity, but with different content
depending on the distro.

Any preferences?


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