[Popcon-developers] Drop atime and ctime for privacy reasons possible?

[Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr (Bill Allombert)]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:37:00AM +0000, adrelanos wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> why <atime> <ctime> <package-name> <mru-program> <tag> is transmitted?
> 
> Wouldn't it be enough to transmit <package-name> <mru-program> <tag>?
> 
> Since the tag with RECENT-CTIME, OLD, or NOFILES can be calculated
> locally, why there is need to transmit atime and ctime? I'd like to see
> it dropped for privacy reasons.

Hello Adrelanos,

I do not know the design decision about sending atime and ctime. I will review
the server side code to see whether it use the data (and how).

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

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