[Popcon-developers] Bug#766276: popularity-contest: Report embedded packages with the Built-Using field

[Bill Allombert]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 11:36:52PM +0200, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.61
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Packages embedded in other packages don't have a popcon that reflect
> their real usage. It would be nice if their usage could be tracked by
> leveraging the Built-Using field.
> 
> For example if a package foo declares 'Built-Using: bar', bar would be
> reported with the same usage stats as foo.

Hello Emmanuel,
Do you have an example in mind ?

This kind of dependency adjustement is done on the server side, not on the
client (it is done for Depends already), but yes this can be done.

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

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