[Popcon-developers] Debian derivatives guidelines: popcon

[Paul Wise]

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Iain Lane wrote:

> So I'm thinking about Ubuntu specifically. Would you recommend it here? I
> guess by "Debian packages" you mean ones that are unmodified? There are some
> graphs
>
>  https://merges.ubuntu.com/universe-now.png
>
> and
>
>  https://merges.ubuntu.com/main-now.png
>
> which show that Ubuntu does 'mostly' use (unmodified) Debian packages.
>
> I can see the value in separating out the origin though (but would still like
> the aggregate displayed by default on popcon.d.o — I'm interested not just in
> what my packages are doing in Debian, but across all derivatives). Would this
> be hard to do? Would you consider this a blocker to including Ubuntu popcon
> data — since otherwise it would massively outweigh all other contributions
> and be inseparable?

I'm thinking popcon needs to be enhanced to send along dpkg origin
information before we can think about doing this. As it stands we
don't know which distros the people submitting to popcon.debian.org
are using.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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