8 docs tagged with "disable-debian-telemetry"

"popularity-contest" checks "/etc/popularity-contest.conf" for the value of "PARTICIPATE" to send data. Configuring this configuration allows you to opt out of the submission of data.

These scripts disable the functionality of reportbug. reportbug is a tool for reporting bugs on Debian and derivative distributions. It communicates with the Debian Bug Tracking System, which is used for both reporting and researching bugs, through a number of interfaces, including email, web, and command-line utilities. By default, it creates an email to the Debian bug tracking system at "submit@bugs.debian.org" with inf...

Popularity Contest (or popcon) collects statistical data to determine which packages are the most popular. It sends a list of packages installed and the access and change times of relevant files to the server via email in different distros such as Debian and Ubuntu. "popularity-contest" package sets up a cron job that will periodically anonymously submit statistical data to the Debian developers about the statistics of the most used Debian packages on the system. It also sends data about the sys...

This script uninstalls "reportbug" package, which includes the tool itself. It depends on "python3-reportbug", so after removing this package, the Python modules may be left on the system.

Normally, "popularity-contest" is run from a cron job, "/etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest". This job automatically submits the results to package maintainers once a week. This script disables the cronjob, thus the automatic submission, but manually running "popularity-contest" would still send data.

This script deletes the "popularity-contest" package. This package submits to the Debian developers statistics about the most used Debian packages on the system. According to community reports, deleting this package does not have any side effects.

This script uninstalls "python3-reportbug". This package includes Python modules that may be reusable by other tools that want to interact with the Debian bug tracking system.

This script uninstalls "reportbug-gtk". It consists of a desktop file and an icon, and it has dependencies to enable the GTK+ UI mode of reportbug to work. This package depends on "reportbug" and is unusable without it.