Package: popularity-contest Severity: wishlist On to, 2007-04-12 at 13:49 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Lars Wirzenius] > > However, changing the popcon debconf question to something like the > > following might be an acceptable compromise: > > > > Would you like to participate in the Debian package popularity > > contest meter? Blah blah blah. You may also choose to only > > report once that you have installed this release of Debian on a > > new machine. In that case no other information from you or your > > machine gets recorded. > > > > [ ] No, I do not want to participate at all. > > [ ] I want to report once that I have installed Debian. > > [ ] I want to participate in the package popularity contest. > > Interesting idea. Perhaps it deserve a wishlist request in BTS? > > > The new choice would then do something like generate a UUID for the > > machine and do a single HTTP query to report it and the contents of > > /etc/debian_version. > > Actually, I've considered adding hardware reporting to popcon, using a > separate question (or more options, not sure which), and hardware > reports do not need to be sent as often as package usage. Such > report-once setting should report the output of lsmod, lspci, > dmidecode, lsusb etc, to allow us to know what hardware is in use out > there.
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