[Popcon-developers] Bug#681721: Bug#681721: popularity-contest: option to limit the list of packages sended to popcon
Stéphane Blondon
stephane.blondon at gmail.com
Mon Jul 16 21:17:08 UTC 2012
16 juillet 2012, Christian PERRIER:
> Is there a point in reporting non official packages?
I have been told it's a way to know other used packages so it could
help to know what is needed by debian' users.
The fact that every used package are send is documented in
/usr/share/doc/popularity-contest/FAQ.gz:
"Unofficial and local packages are reported. This can be an issue
due to 2) above, especially for custom-build kernel packages.
We are evaluating how far we can alleviate this problem."
2012/7/16 Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert at math.u-bordeaux1.fr>:
> The issue is how popcon can reasonnably known whether a package is "official"
> or not.
The list of packages provided by the debian repository seems to be a
good start to me.
For example for an AMD64 arch processor:
- http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/main/binary-amd64/Packages.bz2
- the same archive for contrib and non-free (?)
> Also the list of official packages installed which are dependencies of the
> sensitive packages might provide too string an hint that the sensitive package
> is installed anyway.
I don't think it's a problem because the dependancy pckages stats are
summed up to all other users' stats.
--
Stéphane
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