[Popcon-developers] Bug#496831: popularity-contest: Does not send votes for non-program packages

[Bill Allombert]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:47:30PM +0200, Noel David Torres Taño wrote:
> > Hello Noel,
> > 
> > You are misunderstanding how popcon vote works.
> > 
> > 1) popcon does not really send votes for individual packages. Votes are
> > computed on the server from the report. The FAQ says:
> > 
> >   Q) What is considered a 'vote' for a package ?
> >   
> >   A) A computer 'vote' for a package if according to the data provided in the
> >      report, a program provided or depending on the package was used less than
> >      thirty days ago. This computation is performed by the popcon server.  
> > 
> > 2) Executables files are not treated specially.
> > 
> > 3) libxcursor1 has actually 27015 votes:
> > $ wget -O- -q http://popcon.debian.org/by_vote | grep libxcursor1
> > 192   libxcursor1                    55969 27015  9400  8189 11365 (Debian X Strike Force)
> > 
> > 4) kdemultimedia does not have any real content so it does not
> > deserve any votes, since it can be removed without ill effect.
> > Here the file list of kdemultimedia:
> > 
> >  /usr/share/doc/kdemultimedia/changelog.Debian.gz
> >  /usr/share/doc/kdemultimedia/copyright
> > 
> > Cheers,
> 
> 
> Well, please let me explain where I saw it first time and you maybe can help me with that.
> 
> I've popularity-contest installed, and wmaker with wmaker-data. But I saw this:
> 0 0 wmaker-data <NOFILES>
> What is happening there? I have lots of those 0 0 packages, mostly libs and data packages.

wmaker-data only contains icons in TIFF format and has no reverse
dependencies, so we cannot check whether this package was used recently.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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