Bug#632438: [Popcon-developers] Bug#681721: #632438:
On Sun, Nov 08, 2020 at 10:10:10PM +0900, Kentaro Hayashi wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Sep 2020 16:33:54 +0200 Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> wrote:
> snip
> > Not always. Sometimes that points to packages that are missing in Debian
> > and should be packaged.
>
> I've missed this point of view.
>
> > 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.
>
> As you mentioned, it may be meaningless unless everyone set up popcon
> to discard it.
> So, to make statistics accurately, it may be a bad idea to filter them.
Thanks for getting back to us!
So how about the proposal to use a dpkg field to identify packages than
need filtering ?
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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