788832 – media-sound/musescore: telemetry turned on by default

Bug 788832 - media-sound/musescore: telemetry turned on by default

Summary: media-sound/musescore: telemetry turned on by default

Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal major (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Sound Team

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Reported:	2021-05-07 21:19 UTC by Maciej Barć
Modified:	2023-12-27 23:50 UTC (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Description Maciej Barć gentoo-dev

2021-05-07 21:19:03 UTC

In `src_configure' of media-sound/musescore exist those entries:
-DBUILD_CRASH_REPORTER=OFF
-DBUILD_TELEMETRY_MODULE=ON

My first concern is that telemetry should be turned OFF by default.
Second is that the crash reporter is disabled but telemetry is enabled?
How is that beneficial?

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/media-sound/musescore/musescore-3.6.2.ebuild#n89
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/media-sound/musescore/musescore-3.6.2.ebuild#n97

Comment 1 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev

2021-05-07 22:12:12 UTC

can you confirm that data is sent/leaked?

Comment 2 Maciej Barć gentoo-dev

2021-05-07 22:18:37 UTC

(In reply to Jonas Stein from comment #1)
> can you confirm that data is sent/leaked?

No I can not at the moment.

Btw. the way I have stumbled upon this was by looking through packages of software affiliated with the Muse Group (because of latest events where OSS Muse developers tried inserting telemetry into Audacity) and this script caught my interest.

Comment 3 Miroslav Šulc gentoo-dev

2021-05-15 09:34:31 UTC

imo it builds the telemetry module but it's not enabled by default in the gui. but should be verified.