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Bug#632438: [Popcon-developers] Bug#681721: #632438: popularity-contest: a way to exclude certain packages



On Sun, 2020-09-20 at 11:04 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:

> Could you explain why you want to exclude some package ?

Personally I'm excluding packages created by mk-build-deps as well as
the metapackages I create for my own systems, using a simple `grep -v`
in the popcon submission cron job.

The patch posted by Kentaro is not sufficient for my use-case, which
relies on excluding packages via regex instead of full package name.

> Instead I would suggest to add a new dpkg control field 'X-Popcon:
> private' and have popularity-contest skip packages having this field.

This isn't going to be useful for users who want to exclude packages
from repos that they do not control or packages built by mk-build-deps
or other tools that do not allow adding extra dpkg control fields.

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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