[Python-modules-team] Bug#637535: python-matplotlib-doc: tracking code in documentation

[Stuart Prescott]

Package: python-matplotlib-doc
Version: 0.99.3-1
Severity: normal

Hi!

HTML pages shipped in the python-matplotlib-doc package contain javascript
that tries to report back tracking data to upstream via sourceforge.net.
I'm sure that such data is very valuable to upstream in some way, but it
poses two problems:

* When you have an intermittent or flakey network connection, loading this
  tracking data must time out before you get to see the actual documentation.
  Users shouldn't have to jump through hoops like turning off javascript in
  their browser (which would also break the search facility in the
  documentation).

* There is also a privacy issue here. I'm sure there will be a number of Debian
  users who are unhappy that viewing local HTML files is being tracked in this
  way.

The offending code is as follows (from
/usr/share/doc/python-matplotlib-doc/html/api/axes_api.html):

<!-- Piwik -->
<script type="text/javascript">
var pkBaseURL = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://apps.sourceforge.net/piwik/matplotlib/" : "http://apps.sourceforge.net/piwik/matplotlib/");
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + pkBaseURL + "piwik.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
</script><script type="text/javascript">
piwik_action_name = '';
piwik_idsite = 1;
piwik_url = pkBaseURL + "piwik.php";
piwik_log(piwik_action_name, piwik_idsite, piwik_url);
</script>
<object><noscript><p><img src="http://apps.sourceforge.net/piwik/matplotlib/piwik.php?idsite=1" alt="piwik"/></p></noscript></object>
<!-- End Piwik Tag -->

cheers
Stuart


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.2
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Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-686-bigmem (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages python-matplotlib-doc depends on:
ii  libjs-jquery                  1.4.2-2    JavaScript library for dynamic web

python-matplotlib-doc recommends no packages.

python-matplotlib-doc suggests no packages.

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