Popularity Contest

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 10:21:09PM -0800, Ed Fletcher wrote:

> I was looking for something else in Synaptic and came across
> popularity-contest.  It was installed, so I got curious and had a look
> at it.  It turns out that it's run by cron.weekly and lists all the
> packages on your system, sorts them by how recently they've been
> accessed and emails the results to survey at popcon.debian.org

If you look a bit closer, you'll find that it's disabled by default, and in
fact does not send anything unless you explicitly turn it on.  This has
always been the case in Ubuntu.

Note also that Ubuntu popularity-contest submissions are sent to Ubuntu, not
to Debian.

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 - mdz