[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. > 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. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen