什么是“人气竞赛”套餐？

我目前正在安装ubuntu服务器，并在配置阶段注意到了它。

该软件包的作用是什么？

它会发送有关已安装软件包的信息（但默认情况下处于禁用状态，您可以使用来启用它sudo dpkg-reconfigure popularity-contest），以获取软件包流行/使用情况统计信息。

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuPopularityContest

http://popcon.ubuntu.com/

包装说明：

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.