[Popcon-developers] Bug#634474: popularity-contest: improve privacy by randomizing order of entries in all-popcon-results.gz?
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 03:08:46AM +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.49
> Severity: wishlist
>
> http://popcon.debian.org/all-popcon-results.gz
>
> lists all my locally created packages together:
>
> ...
> Package: saturn 0 1 0 0
> Package: osm2go 0 1 0 0
> Package: jpl-asc2eph 0 1 0 0
> Package: rtklib-build-deps 0 0 0 1
> Package: x11vis 0 0 1 0
> Package: remote-keyboard 0 1 0 0
> Package: qubes-os-gui 0 1 0 0
> Package: gpstk 0 1 0 0
> Package: buscatcher 0 1 0 0
> Package: antd-query 0 1 0 0
> Package: novasc 0 1 0 0
> Package: measure 0 1 0 0
> Package: libperl-astro-simbad-client 0 1 0 0
> Package: libmroastro 0 1 0 0
> Package: jpl-ephemeris-de405 0 0 0 1
> Package: python-xgoogle 0 0 0 1
> Package: mroastro 0 1 0 0
> Package: qubes-os-core 0 1 0 0
> ...
>
> This means that if somebody knows that I have installed "saturn" and
> "qubes-os-core" they can easily derive that I also have installed all
> the packages that are listed between them.
>
> Would it be possible to randomize the order of entries?
Hello Timo,
Are you using custom section name for your locally created package ?
I ask this because it appears that the current popcon code sort the packages by sections
instead of names.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>
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