Bill Allombert <ballo...@debian.org> writes: > I plan to add support for 'XB-Popcon-Reports: no' to popularity-contest. > This allows to build packages with private names that will not be > reported to popcon, by adding 'XB-Popcon-Reports: no' to debian/control. > This must not used by packages in the debian archive, however that can > be used by packages generators that create packages with randomly > generated names (package names that include 128bit uuid for examples) or > by organizations that generates packages for internal use whose name > include the organization name.
> The rationale is that the only info really leaked is the package name, > so it only make sense to hide a package if every system that have it > installed are also hiding it, so it is better to make it a property of > the package than of the system. > Any comment ? This sounds like a good idea to me. Using an additional binary package control field felt weird to me, and I wanted to believe there was some better place to put this information rather than introducing yet another boolean control field, but after thinking about it for a bit, I couldn't think of any better place that made much sense. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
