[Popcon-developers] Bug#765315: please include /etc/debian_version in report

Joey Hess joeyh at debian.org
Thu Oct 16 02:42:33 UTC 2014


Bill Allombert wrote:
> Indeed, but I am concerned that providing data for a small subset of
> the archive is a increasing the risk a deanonymization.
> 
> Currently unstable+testing is about 15% of the archive but it is 
> often much less. Furthermore if we publish data for unstable+testing,
> then data for old-stable and older can be computed by substraction,
> which is another subset that could be used for deanonymization.
> 
> Add to that that processing an extra substet take quite a lot of time.

I'd personally be happy to get this data for the top 50% most installed
packages or so. I guess that would avoid most of the data leaks?

> > Also, there is no graph of the total number of reporters who are using
> > a given release. "Statistics per popularity-contest releases" is almost
> > that, but not really.
> 
> What is missing, specifically ?

Summing up the appropriate lines by eye is rather difficult..

-- 
see shy jo
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