[Bug 158715] Periodically call home to check for need for update due to security vulnerability

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158715

--- Comment #8 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> ---
(In reply to Rene Engelhard from comment #3)
> Calling home is a problem. In general it is already questionable but here
> even more.

We can either have security updates, or not-calling-home, but not both (except
for users who have other means of regular updates of installed apps).

Naturally, we should offer an opt-out of calling home, during installation. But
like I said, we already call home today (for versions you download from
libreoffice.org)

(In reply to Caolán McNamara from comment #5)
> For the appstore provided case the updates are assumed to get installed by
> that usual mechanism so the issue shouldn't really apply there.

Not good enough IMHO, like John Mills says. We should discourage users from
continuing to use a version when a security update is known to be available.
Not prevent them from it, and we can let users opt out of from the
nagging-discouragement, but we can't rely on our users being vigilant and even
making a single easy choice, because enough of them will get it wrong for one
reason or another, at least once. The nagging or discouragement should get most
of those to get it right the next time.

(In reply to Rene Engelhard from comment #4)
> People who don't follow either should not administer systems.

But most LibreOffice users do administer their systems, or fail to administer
them. They are Windows users with their private desktop/laptop machines.

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