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Add patch to prevent remmina from phoning home (Closes: #1109981).

Sven Geuerrequested to merge
sven-geuer/remmina:master into master

Prevent remmina from phoning home

Description

Invocations to curl used for phoning home are commented out. As all these invocations are done asynchronously it is sufficient to just drop them.

Related Issue

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1109981

Motivation and Context

Phone home is considered a privacy issue, see https://wiki.debian.org/PrivacyIssues Bug #1109981 is flagged with Severity: important.

How Has This Been Tested?

Run remmina unpatched

  • Watch HTTP/HTTPS traffic using whireshark: -> two request.
  • Click Menu -> Plugins: Not installed plugins available upstream are listed.
  • Run a VNC session.

Run remmina patched

  • Watch HTTP/HTTPS traffic using whireshark: -> no request.
  • Click Menu -> Plugins: No additional plugins available upstream are listed. In Debian additional plugins get installed as packages, thus no need to install them from upstream (in case this works at all).
  • Run a VNC session: Works the same way as with the unpatched remmina.

Screenshots (if appropriate):

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Types of changes

  • Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
  • New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
  • Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)

Checklist:

  • My code follows the code style of this project. Only C-style comments has been used to change the code, hence I assume this does not infringe the project's code style.
  • My change requires a change to the documentation.
  • I have updated the documentation accordingly.

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