[Popcon-developers] Bug#313194: popularity-contest: should collect stats for aptitude auto flag

[Bill Allombert]

On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 06:57:28AM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> 
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 0.29
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> I think it would be interesting to be able to weight the popcon stats
> based on whether a package is auto-installed or manually selected.
> This is only tracked within aptitude (or other apt frontends?  I don't
> use them so I don't know) but lots of people use aptitude these days
> instead of apt-get or dselect, so I think the data would be meaningful.
> 
> I suppose it would be useful to note, also, where a list of packages
> comes off a system where aptitude is not installed or where no packages
> have the autoinstalled flag set - there, it's unknown which packages
> were manually installed.

Hello Peter, 

I am not sure this will give us more valuable information than the
'vote' field, this will be unreliable since people can install package
both with aptitude and without on the same box, and we cannot add this
feature without first asking the user if s/he accept to report such
extra information.

We cannot simply changes popcon to report any information we would like.

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

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