[Popcon-developers] Bug#681721: popcon: 681721: duplicate of #632438

Paul Wise pabs at debian.org
Sun May 5 12:49:02 UTC 2013


On Sun, 2013-05-05 at 14:34 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:

> Well, I am not sure I like the idea to help users to remove packages from the
> list. If you are afraid to leak information, the only safe course is not to
> report to popcon. I do not want popcon to be held responsible for leaking
> information it was told to protect.
> 
> Beside, I am afraid this will skew popcon results because some packages will be
> under-reported.

The main use of the feature would be to not report sensitive packages,
especially metapackages not in Debian.

I would suggest that lack of this feature will reduce the amount of
people willing to report to popcon.d.o and skew the results.

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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