[Popcon-developers] Bug#577806: popularity-contest: Participate is not the default action

[Luca Bruno]

Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.48
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i

Hello, actually when installing Debian people is asked to participate to popcon
or not. The default action is to not participate. I think this makes popcon
lose a lot of users because they don't even read the page about popcon, and I
think this applies to most of the desktop/first users. If people is really
aware of any privacy and networks issues about using popcon, they will then
choose the right option.   I would like to propose to make participating the
default action.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.30     Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                          1.15.5.6   Debian package management system

Versions of packages popularity-contest recommends:
ii  cron                          3.0pl1-108 process scheduling daemon
ii  esmtp-run [mail-transport-age 1.2-3      user configurable relay-only MTA -

Versions of packages popularity-contest suggests:
ii  anacron                       2.3-14     cron-like program that doesn't go 

-- debconf information:
  popularity-contest/submiturls:
* popularity-contest/participate: true