Are you going to try it? What is your use case? What are you hoping to do with it?
I’ll be evaluating it as a potential default recommendation for new Linux users, and possibly daily driving on my personal home desktop (now Arch).
Are you going to try it? What is your use case? What are you hoping to do with it?
I’ll be evaluating it as a potential default recommendation for new Linux users, and possibly daily driving on my personal home desktop (now Arch).
I heard it was shipping libraries that capture all clipboard data and sent it to foreign servers unencrypted, and that this was being defended in the buglist as a feature, so I might actually skip this one at least until the first or second batch of security updates rolls on.
For servers, it makes not much difference for me; where possible I either stick to Stable + Backports (which requires Backports in the first place) or jump right to Unstable.
Insane to say this without providing proof
The fediverse has literally linked the issue, there’s a CVE and a Debian Bugs thread. Like, sure, not all bad news spread fast but to go from there to “insane” shows your primary platform is probably tiktok.
I’d still appreciate a link to your claim instead of accusing me of using platforms I don’t actually use, thanks.
You have a link where I can read more about this?
It’s making the rounds on the Fediverse. Example. And the bugtracker shows this thread where the very first responses to the issue raised already promote leaking this data as a “feature”.
Okay, so it’s a program you have to specifically install, not a library and not installed by default.
Regardless, yeah it should not be doing that.
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I mean, it’s Debian. To a point I can understand it.
And, from what I can get from the thread, it’s not really a problem that the package exists - rather that the software is packaged and distributed unpatched.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/08/stardict_leaky_app_of_week/