Bug#632438: [Popcon-developers] Bug#681721: #632438:
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 09:23:13PM +0900, Kentaro Hayashi wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Sep 2020 13:41:53 +0200 Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 08:08:35PM +0900, Kentaro Hayashi wrote:
> > > I want to exclude installed packages from 3rd party vendor
> > > such as /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list. (some may be proprietary software)
> >
> > OK, but what is your purpose in excluding them from popcon ?
>
> Personally, I think that popcon data from 3rd party packages
> is just a noise because there is nothing to do with Debian.
Not always. Sometimes that points to packages that are missing in Debian
and should be packaged.
> Therefore, I think that it seems better to exclude.
>
> But this is my personal opinion, so I don't mean to force others
> to do so. I'm happy if I have an option to exclude them.
But as soon as a single system report a package name, it appears in the
statistics. So unless everyone set up popcon to discard it, there is the
same amount of noise with less accurate statistics.
One other option would be for popularity-contest to detect third-party packages, but
this is difficult to do client-side. However this is done server-side,
see <https://popcon.debian.org/unknown/by_inst.gz>
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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