On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 11:21:17AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Bill Allombert] > > Dear Kentaro, > > Could you explain why you want to exclude some package ? > > I am concerned this will squew the statistic, if used > > indiscriminately. > > The use case was explained by Paul Wise in the opening of this issue.
Indeed, and I suggested the control field solution already, but so far nobody answered they were interested in this feaure so I did not implement it. > > Instead I would suggest to add a new dpkg control field 'X-Popcon: > > private' and have popularity-contest skip packages having this field. > > > > This way users will be able to create private packages that will never > > register even on misconfigured hosts. > > This sound like a good solution to the use case from Paul, about > personal metapackages with hostname in their name. Thanks, this is encouraging! Cheers, -- Bill. <[email protected]> Imagine a large red swirl here.
