Bug#632438: popularity-contest: a way to exclude certain packages

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Bill Allombert]
> Dear Kentaro,
> Could you explain why you want to exclude some package ?
> I am concerned this will squew the statistic, if used
> indiscriminately.

The use case was explained by Paul Wise in the opening of this issue.

> Instead I would suggest to add a new dpkg control field 'X-Popcon:
> private' and have popularity-contest skip packages having this field.
>
> This way users will be able to create private packages that will never
> register even on misconfigured hosts.

This sound like a good solution to the use case from Paul, about
personal metapackages with hostname in their name.

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen