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

[Noel David Torres Taño]

El Thursday 28 August 2008 16:17:51 Petter Reinholdtsen escribió:
> [Noel David Torres Taño]
> > Actually popcon is unable to send votes for packages like
> > kdemultimedia or libxcursor1 because they have no executables.
> 
> This is correct, and documented behaviour.
> 
> A lot of files are ignored when counting votes, to only get votes for
> packages touched/used by humans (and not daily cron jobs).  The vote
> count is inaccurate, and we know it.  It is as accurate as we have
> been able to get it, but can not be used to compare relative usage
> across all packages.  One need to understand how the vote count work
> to do any reasonable comparison.
> 
> What do you expect to change based on your BTS report?  I have no idea
> what you want, and no idea how to solve anything related to it.

Well, it would be great if files like libraries or images would be
included in the votes. Desktop backgrounds, when packaged, display
manager schemas, when packaged (too), or icons like those in the
wmaker-data package.

It would be of interest for developers of packages like
gdm-themes-extra or wmaker-data to see if they're being used or if it
is best for Debian to have their effort devoted to other packages.

I'm the new maintainer of wmaker-data and I do not know if it is
being actively used or the installations and upgrades it has are only
remnants of previous times. All that I can do is to look at the
numbers for wmaker. But other packages like kde-icons-crystal does
not have that advantage since there are a lot of kde-icons-*
available.
> 
> Happy hacking,


Thanks for all the time wasted

Noel
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