Bug#941254: popularity-contest is installed even if user answers No

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Jason]
> popularity-contest is installed even if user answers No to whether
> they want it installed or not. Having to install the package to answer
> the question is asinine and either the wording should be changed (to
> notify the user that it will be installed anyway whether they like it
> or not ( (then why ask in the first place???) )) or the
> methadology. Does it send a report of installed software before
> uninstalling?

I suspect you are talking about the behaviour of the Debian installation
system, as the popularity-contest package can not ask any questions
before it is installed.  Is this correct?  If so, I believe this issue
should be reassigned to the appropriate d-i udeb package (pkgsel).  Do
you know which version of pkgsel were involved?

As far as I know, the installer install popularity-contest to get the
question presented (the question text is part of the package), and
remove it again if the answer was no.  Looking at
<URL: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/pkgsel/blob/master/pre-pkgsel.d/90popcon >
it seem to be still the case.

Did the removal fail during the d-i run?

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen