[Popcon-developers] Bug#681721: popcon: 681721: duplicate of #632438

[Bill Allombert]

On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 08:49:02PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-05-05 at 14:34 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> 
> > Well, I am not sure I like the idea to help users to remove packages from the
> > list. If you are afraid to leak information, the only safe course is not to
> > report to popcon. I do not want popcon to be held responsible for leaking
> > information it was told to protect.
> > 
> > Beside, I am afraid this will skew popcon results because some packages will be
> > under-reported.
> 
> The main use of the feature would be to not report sensitive packages,
> especially metapackages not in Debian.

What kind of metapackages ?

> I would suggest that lack of this feature will reduce the amount of
> people willing to report to popcon.d.o and skew the results.

But in a more obvious way.

Maybe such packages could have a control field 'X-Popcon-report: no' that would prevent
popcon from reporting them. This way it would not be a per-user decision.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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