Respuestas:
Envía información sobre los paquetes instalados (pero esto está deshabilitado de forma predeterminada, puede habilitarlo usando sudo dpkg-reconfigure popularity-contest
) para las estadísticas de uso / popularidad de paquetes.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuPopularityContest
Descripción del paquete:
The popularity-contest package sets up a cron job that will periodically
anonymously submit to the Ubuntu developers statistics about the most used
Ubuntu packages on this system.
This information helps us making decisions such as which packages should go on
the first CD. It also lets us improve future versions of Ubuntu so that the
most popular packages are the ones which are installed automatically for new
users.