'Anyone who says "full stop" is an idiot, full stop.'
One of the more common ways to get audacity (via your distribution) happens to [often] not provide your/a user agent string to the audacity developers, nor do they get a copy of your ip. In the context of a distribution: the auto-update mechanism is also problematic and needs to be disabled at install time.
And all of this is
a) reinventing the wheel.
b ) breaks the assumption that the computer will only connect to the network with a human-in-the-loop.
c) completely unnecessary in the first place.
Let the distributions keep track of issues and report them upstream.
What about users who don't download it via their distribution package managers (for example because their distributions ship very old versions of Audacity)?
One of the more common ways to get audacity (via your distribution) happens to [often] not provide your/a user agent string to the audacity developers, nor do they get a copy of your ip. In the context of a distribution: the auto-update mechanism is also problematic and needs to be disabled at install time.
And all of this is
a) reinventing the wheel.
b ) breaks the assumption that the computer will only connect to the network with a human-in-the-loop.
c) completely unnecessary in the first place.
Let the distributions keep track of issues and report them upstream.