[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] ITP: intel-me-cleaner -- under the umbrella of this team?

[intrigeri]

Hi Georg & team,

Georg Faerber:
> I've took over the ITP of intel-me-cleaner [1], after offering help some
> months ago.

Excellent! \o/

> I thought, this might be a good fit for this team? Any opinions
> regarding this?

Amusingly, this proved to be harder a question to answer than I expected.

At first glance, this package is about security and is relevant to
privacy in the sense that anything else that improves systems security
also improves privacy. So I'm concerned that if we extend the scope of
team-maintained packages this far, way too much software would
arguably become good fit for this team as well, which feels like
a slippery slope. Arguably pkg-security¹ would be a better fit for it.
Now, we already have codecrypt under our team's umbrella so let's not
pretend our scope is very strictly defined :)

Taking a step back, it seems to me that what has glued this team and
the work we've been doing together so far is not as much specific
technical functionality or vague concepts ("privacy" or "anonymity")
as a shared desire/need to care about a bunch of use cases whose
threat model is traditionally not the top priority of a general
purpose distro such as Debian. With this in mind, it seems to me that
some of the threat models in which people will bother using me_cleaner
fit very well into the set of use cases our team is supporting.
So I take back my initial objection to this proposal :)

(Tangentially related: at some point I'd like us to collectively think
about where we should focus our energy. Seeing dkg struggle mostly
alone with Enigmail maintenance is heart-breaking and makes me wish we
could take a step back together and prioritize which parts of the
ecosystem we feel responsible for most.)

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/pkg-security

Cheers,
-- 
intrigeri