[Popcon-developers] Bug#773663: Bug#773663: popularity-contest: Patch to enable Tor support

[Bill Allombert]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 05:36:43PM +0100, Federico Ceratto wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Bill Allombert <ballombe at debian.org> wrote:
> > Would you mind writing a popcon FAQ entry <http://popcon.debian.org/FAQ>
> > to document this ?
> 
> Sure (I'll be in VAC for 6 weeks tho)
> 
> > 1) USETOR should use the same convention as ENCRYPT: yes/maybe/no instead of
> > always/auto/no
> 
> I see "maybe" as confusing to the user, and being explicit is better,
> especially when it
> comes to security. I would rather suggest avoiding "automatic"
> behavior where possible.

I agree, that what I named it "maybe" to carry the notion that it is not 
entirely reliable (because gpg or tor may be desinstalled by mistake).

The avantage of "maybe" is that it can be set by default, while "yes" cannot.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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