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

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Bill Allombert (allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr):

> I disagree. If you manually run 'apt-get install popularity-contest'
> you should not be surprised that the package is installed. Packages are
> not supposed to uninstall themselves (and anyway they cannot).

You're absolutely right and I was completely wrong..:-)

popcon is not part of base system and its installation is triggered by
base-config. Sorry for my wrong assumption

> 
> The problem stems from the fact that base-config force the installation 
> of the package without warning the user.
> 
> What we could do is to reproduce the debconf question in base-config
> and make sure base-config do not install popularity-contest if the
> answer is no. base-config could fill the debconf db to avoid 
> popularity-contest asking the same question (maybe by using a shared
> template).

Looks like it could be made. I guess we thus need to re-reassign the
bug as a wishlist in base-config.

For avoiding breaking the translation, the exact same template should
be added and some magic msgmerge done so that translations may come
directly from popcon into base-config (ah, common templates....so much
work to be done on that topic).