[Popcon-developers] Bug#681721: Bug#681721: popularity-contest: option to limit the list of packages sended to popcon

[stephane.blondon@gmail.com (Stéphane Blondon)]

16 juillet 2012, Christian PERRIER:
> Is there a point in reporting non official packages?

I have been told it's a way to know other used packages so it could
help to know what is needed by debian' users.
The fact that every used package are send is documented in
/usr/share/doc/popularity-contest/FAQ.gz:
   "Unofficial and local packages are reported. This can be an issue
   due to 2) above, especially for custom-build kernel packages.
   We are evaluating how far we can alleviate this problem."


2012/7/16 Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert at math.u-bordeaux1.fr>:
> The issue is how popcon can reasonnably known whether a package is "official"
> or not.

The list of packages provided by the debian repository seems to be a
good start to me.
For example for an AMD64 arch processor:
 -  http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/main/binary-amd64/Packages.bz2
 - the same archive for contrib and non-free (?)


> Also the list of official packages installed which are dependencies of the
> sensitive packages might provide too string an hint that the sensitive package
> is installed anyway.

I don't think it's a problem because the dependancy pckages stats are
summed up to all other users' stats.


-- 
St?phane