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Re:Why does Debian change software? by guappa on Thursday May 22, 2025 @04:14AM (#44059881)
It's not guaranteed that they manage to catch all the software that does this though :D
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Re:Why does Debian change software? by phoe-krk on Thursday May 22, 2025 @04:18AM (#44059912)
Any such leftover behavior is going to be a reportable and fixable bug then.
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Re:Why does Debian change software? by guappa on Thursday May 22, 2025 @04:30AM (#44059987)
I'm not sure it's explicitly in the policy or if any team can decide what to do…
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Re:Why does Debian change software? by pabs3 on Thursday May 22, 2025 @04:49AM (#44060131)
It isn't in policy yet no.

https://wiki.debian.org/PrivacyIssues

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Re:Why does Debian change software? by gosub100 on Thursday May 22, 2025 @08:22AM (#44061356)
It's not guaranteed that policies enforce every possible case though.
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Re:Why does Debian change software? by hulitu on Saturday May 24, 2025 @09:38AM (#44081039)
> It's not guaranteed that they manage to catch all the software that does this though :D

It is really hard to run netstat. Or tcpdump. /s

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