Bug#1014431: popularity-contest: automatically create hostid if not specified in popularity-contest.conf
Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.73
Severity: wishlist
It would be nice if it was not required to have host-specific data in
the configuration file (MY_HOSTID).
If no MY_HOSTID is specified, popularity-contest could for example
generate an application-specific MY_HOSTID from the machine-id as
described for libsystemd's `sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific`
function (i.e., HMAC-SHA256 of a application ID for
popularity-contents keyed by the machine-id).
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