User-Agent and Debian version

[Mike Hommey]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 11:37:30AM +0100, Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org> wrote:
>         Hi,
> 
>  I just noticed Galeon has a patch to display the Debian package version
>  number in the "about:" page and in the User-Agent.  The "about:" page
>  is not directly accesible from the UI, one has to type "about:" in the
>  URI bar, so it's not very useful, and the User-Agent is only seen by
>  web server.
> 
>  I'm not sure it's a good idea to expose "Debian" in the User-Agent,
>  sure it's nice and displays Debian here and there, but it's also
>  information on the users' systems that one might want to hide.  (And
>  it's a small patch to maintain).
> 
>  What do you think of this, and what do you do in your packages?

It's also available in Firefox, and it's easily removeable.
It's a good thing to expose i think, for several reasons, one being that
reporting bugs on upstream bugzilla indicates which "flavour" of the
browser is used.

Mike