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[David Morley <davmor2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Martin in USC there is an option to reinstall your packages it ties into apps.Ubuntu.com I forget the name of the service and I'm not at a pc

Martin Albisetti <argentina@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Nicolas Delvaux
><contact@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>> 1/ Reinstalling is already possible on the desktop (and opt-in)
>
>It is not, you need to do this yourself. Nothing tracks apps installed
>through apt, the only thing being tracked today are apps installed via
>the software center that had been uploaded via the software center by
>upstream developers (the equivalent of the click appstore). Nothing
>has change there, we're just making it easier for upstream developers
>to upload their apps directly and not have to go through maintainers.
>
>
>> 2/ http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=stellarium ?
>> Requiring to identifying users may indeed provide more accurate numbers.
>> But this has a privacy cost. Is popcon so bad?
>
>This would (almost) be the equivalent of having popcon enabled by
>default, which it is not today.
>
>
>> 3/ Fair enough. You could also just publish an update for the malicious
>> package that would remove it and popup something to the user (or
>> whatever else, this is the same as if a malicious package was found in
>> Debian repositories).
>
>Yes, we will do that too, but not everybody is going to be updating
>their apps diligently, so this would be for extreme, time-sensitive
>cases.
>
>
>-- 
>Martin
>
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