16 juillet 2012, Christian PERRIER: > Is there a point in reporting non official packages?
I have been told it's a way to know other used packages so it could help to know what is needed by debian' users. The fact that every used package are send is documented in /usr/share/doc/popularity-contest/FAQ.gz: "Unofficial and local packages are reported. This can be an issue due to 2) above, especially for custom-build kernel packages. We are evaluating how far we can alleviate this problem." 2012/7/16 Bill Allombert <bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>: > The issue is how popcon can reasonnably known whether a package is "official" > or not. The list of packages provided by the debian repository seems to be a good start to me. For example for an AMD64 arch processor: - http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/main/binary-amd64/Packages.bz2 - the same archive for contrib and non-free (?) > 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. I don't think it's a problem because the dependancy pckages stats are summed up to all other users' stats. -- Stéphane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
