[Popcon-developers] Bug#765315: please include /etc/debian_version in report

[Bill Allombert]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 02:57:50PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Bill Allombert wrote:
> > I am a bit confused by your report. I would expect what you request to be
> > adequately provided by the popcon.debian.org  website and the
> > popularity-contest version field.  We even provide separate data for stable.
>  
> But not separate data for unstable+testing.

Indeed, but I am concerned that providing data for a small subset of
the archive is a increasing the risk a deanonymization.

Currently unstable+testing is about 15% of the archive but it is 
often much less. Furthermore if we publish data for unstable+testing,
then data for old-stable and older can be computed by substraction,
which is another subset that could be used for deanonymization.

Add to that that processing an extra substet take quite a lot of time.

> Also, there is no way to get a graph for a package limited to reports
> for stable or unstable+testing.

If by graph you means 'https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php', then it is not
maintained by us.

> Also, there is no graph of the total number of reporters who are using
> a given release. "Statistics per popularity-contest releases" is almost
> that, but not really.

What is missing, specifically ?

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

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