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Bug#941254: marked as done (popularity-contest is installed even if user answers No)

Your message dated Sun, 22 Mar 2020 11:11:40 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#941254: popularity-contest is installed even if user answers No
has caused the Debian Bug report #941254,
regarding popularity-contest is installed even if user answers No
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Package: popularity-contest
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

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?

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_ZA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_ZA:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.71
ii  dpkg                   1.19.7

Versions of packages popularity-contest recommends:
ii  cron [cron-daemon]                  3.0pl1-134
pn  default-mta | mail-transport-agent  <none>
ii  gnupg                               2.2.12-1+deb10u1

Versions of packages popularity-contest suggests:
pn  anacron   <none>
pn  tor       <none>
pn  torsocks  <none>

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--- Begin Message --- 
On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 10:28:34PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 10:23:15AM +0200, Jason wrote:
> > Package: popularity-contest
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> Hello Jason,
> 
> If you install popularity-contest and answer "No" to the question 
> "Participate in the package usage survey ?", popularity-contest
> will not report anything. The file /etc/popularity-contest.conf
> will have PARTICIPATE="no".
> 
> Furthermore, if you use debian-installer and you answer No,
> debian-installer will remove the package.
> 
> In any case, there is no way for popularity-contest to do
> anything unless it is installed.

Closing this report!
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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