[Popcon-developers] Bug#418891: The number of etch installations is rocketing...

[Lars Wirzenius]

Package: popularity-contest
Severity: wishlist

On to, 2007-04-12 at 13:49 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Lars Wirzenius]
> > However, changing the popcon debconf question to something like the
> > following might be an acceptable compromise:
> >
> >         Would you like to participate in the Debian package popularity
> >         contest meter? Blah blah blah. You may also choose to only
> >         report once that you have installed this release of Debian on a
> >         new machine. In that case no other information from you or your
> >         machine gets recorded.
> >         
> >         [ ] No, I do not want to participate at all.
> >         [ ] I want to report once that I have installed Debian.
> >         [ ] I want to participate in the package popularity contest.
> 
> Interesting idea.  Perhaps it deserve a wishlist request in BTS?
> 
> > The new choice would then do something like generate a UUID for the
> > machine and do a single HTTP query to report it and the contents of
> > /etc/debian_version.
> 
> Actually, I've considered adding hardware reporting to popcon, using a
> separate question (or more options, not sure which), and hardware
> reports do not need to be sent as often as package usage.  Such
> report-once setting should report the output of lsmod, lspci,
> dmidecode, lsusb etc, to allow us to know what hardware is in use out
> there.


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