Bug#1014431: popularity-contest: automatically create hostid if not specified in popularity-contest.conf

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Ansgar]
>> What would be the advantage ?
>
> No host-specific configuration would be required for popcon. One can
> just install an identical popularity-contest.conf on several machines
> instead of having to deal with a host-specific setting (MY_HOSTID).

Is the use case mirrored installations, thin clients with identical
disks, cloud installations, or what?

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen