[Popcon-developers] SUBMITURL to SUBMITURLS change break privacy

Bill Allombert allomber at math.u-bordeaux.fr
Sat Oct 7 15:17:07 UTC 2006


Hello Petter,

I noticed you commited this change without any relevant changelog 
entry:

diff -u -r1.3 -r1.4
--- default.conf        2 Jul 2005 17:18:05 -0000       1.3
+++ default.conf        6 Jul 2005 14:06:25 -0000       1.4
@@ -28,8 +28,9 @@
 #
 #MAILFROM="root at example.org"

-# SUBMITURL is where to submit popularity-contest reports using http.
-SUBMITURL=http://popcon.debian.org/cgi-bin/popcon.cgi
+# SUBMITURLS is a space separated list of where to submit
+# popularity-contest reports using http.
+SUBMITURLS="http://popcon.debian.org/cgi-bin/popcon.cgi"

 # USEHTTP enables http reporting.   Set this to 'yes' to enable it.
 USEHTTP="no"

I am sure you realize this change cause a major privacy violation to any
one who have set SUBMITURL in /etc/popularity-contest.conf to report
somewhere else than popcon.debian.org.

Anyway since SUBMITURL was not support in Sarge, I will not fix that but
I do expect higher standard.
 
Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

Imagine a large red swirl here. 



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