On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 12:05:23AM +0400, Askar Safin wrote: > Package: popularity-contest > Version: 1.49 > Severity: normal > > I created and installed dummy package "safinaskar-test-of-popcon" to test > popcon. And this package was ocassionally leaked to popcon!
Yes but it is not quite popular: 129960 safinaskar-test-of-popcon 1 0 0 0 1 (Not in sid) > You can see it on http://popcon.debian.org/by_inst (as on 2013-03-31). Of > course, this is a bug! This means any guy can create a lot of packages, > install them, and they will appear in popcon statistics. This is bad. So, I > can add to your statistics some 1000000 random packages. This is already the case, with dynamically generated package names. > So, please deny votes for packages not from Debian archive. I think you are making this issue a much larger problem that in actually is. Thanks for your interest in popularity-contest! Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
