I hate to defend telemetry of all things but in this particular case the criticism is unfounded and lacks context: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/

I hate to defend telemetry of all things but in this particular case the criticism is unfounded and lacks context: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/telemetry https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/telemetry https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/telemetry https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/telemetr... https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/tree/main/src/Cli/dotnet/Telemetry https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/tree/main/src/Cli/dotnet/Telem... In any case, Debian would use https://github.com/dotnet/source-build https://github.com/dotnet/source-build and dotnet/dotnet, and could easily include the argument or a patch for this. It’s unlikely to be an issue. My bet it was not in Debian because there was no one to take initiative yet or there was but that person has faced a backlash by people in Debian who are similar to vocal minority here that posts FUD because of their little personal crusade.