[Popcon-developers] Bug#251986: Popularity contest installed after saying "No"

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>, 251986@bugs.debian.org (Bill Allombert)]

On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 12:27:37AM -0300, Christian Perrier wrote:
> reassign 251986 popularity-contest
> thanks
> 
> Quoting Steve Langasek (vorlon@debian.org):
> > On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 01:12:35AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > 
> > > It's a bit disconcerting that saying "No" to the popcon participation
> > > question results in it being installed anyway - I think that might cause
> > > some amount of confusion.
> > 
> > FWIW, the question actually is being asked by the popcon package's own
> > config script, which is giving users the option whether to participate
> 
> It is.
> 
> So, the question mostly turns out into "is popcon to be in the base
> system".
> 
> 
> So, whether this is fixed or not, this bug definitely belongs to
> popcon....:-)

I disagree. If you manually run 'apt-get install popularity-contest'
you should not be surprised that the package is installed. Packages are
not supposed to uninstall themselves (and anyway they cannot).

The problem stems from the fact that base-config force the installation 
of the package without warning the user.

What we could do is to reproduce the debconf question in base-config
and make sure base-config do not install popularity-contest if the
answer is no. base-config could fill the debconf db to avoid 
popularity-contest asking the same question (maybe by using a shared
template).

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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