Ask HN: Specificity of app permission detection in Google Play

Google is currently contacting developers to remove unnecessary permissions from your app manifest or declare why it is needed.

Specifically, it's about "powerful" permissions like QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES or REQUEST_INSTALL_PACKAGES.

The request in itself is understandable and reasonable.

However, the automated detection of these permissions doesn't seem to work that well (for me), leading to false positives in my case.

Both permissions were detected in one of my apps, although one was never used and the other was removed in time. Still, I got a warning by email after the permission was already removed.

Anybody has similar experiences here?