[Popcon-developers] Bug#251986: Popularity contest installed after saying "No"

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

reassign 251986 base-config
thanks

[Martin Michlmayr]
> Sure, but the problem is that people don't install the package
> themselves, but base-config does it for them.  They think that the
> question is about installing popcon, and not about running it.

We could modify base-config to uninstall popularity-contest if the
user said no to participate.  I believe base-config need to fix it, as
base-config requested the installation.  Reassigning to base-config.

Something like this would do it.  The idea is to check the debconf
question value, and remove the package if it is 'false'.

The debconf-get-selections tool was introduced in debconf version
1.3.19 and ended in debconf-utils in version 1.4.9.

Index: lib/menu/pkgsel
===================================================================
--- lib/menu/pkgsel	(revision 1185)
+++ lib/menu/pkgsel	(working copy)
@@ -60,6 +60,13 @@
 			dpkg --purge $extra || true
 		fi
 	fi
+
+	# If user said no to participate in popularity-contest, remove
+	# the package.
+	if debconf-get-selections | grep popularity-contest/participate |
+	        grep -q false ; then
+	    dpkg --purge popularity-contest
+	fi
 	;;
 failure)
 	# This branch is reached if there was some problem installing.