[Popcon-developers] Bug#681721: Bug#681721: popularity-contest: option to limit the list of packages sended to popcon

[Bill Allombert]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:25:07AM +0200, Stéphane Blondon wrote:
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.55
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Currently, the popcon script on user computer sends the list of all
> installed packages.
> However, it would the nice to have a configurable option to limit it
> to the official package because today, there is only two choices if
> the user have sensitive packages:

Hello Stéphane,

The issue is how popcon can reasonnably known whether a package is "official"
or not.

Also the list of official packages installed which are dependencies of the
sensitive packages might provide too string an hint that the sensitive package
is installed anyway.

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

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