[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#876363: octave fetches network resources when network access disabled

[Mike Miller]

Control: forwarded -1 https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52090

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 23:03:57 +0100, D Haley wrote:
> 1) The GUI should be clear as to what setting the backend is currently
> using. I think it is a concern that there are two settings that have the
> capacity to be "out-of-sync".

I've filed upstream bug https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52090 to resolve
this in Octave, so at least the settings and their behavior will agree.

Feel free to participate there, or reply here if you think I got
something wrong in capturing this problem.

> 2) From a debian user's/policy perspective, I think the GUI should
> default to not using a network connection for an application where this
> might be surprising to an end user. Either querying the user again, or
> defaulting to false would be best

I will try to push for upstream to keep the default value to false. A
compromise position might be to have the first run dialog suggest that
it be enabled, but if the setting is ever deleted manually or corrupted
or unable to read in any way, it should always default to disabled.

-- 
mike
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