The package reporting component will be removed from the base Ubuntu installation.

Michael Hudson-Doyle from the team Ubuntu Foundations Team reported on the decision to remove the package popcon (popularity-contest), used for transmitting anonymized telemetry about downloads, installations, updates, and removals of packages. Based on the collected data, reports were generated on the popularity of applications and used architectures, which developers used to make decisions about including certain programs in the base distribution. Popcon was included in the distribution since 2006, but starting with the release of Ubuntu 18.04, this package and the related server backend were non-functional. Michael Hudson-Doyle from the Ubuntu Foundations Team

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