[Popcon-developers] Bug#816281: popularity-contest: should allow to collect parts of package configuration
Dominique Dumont
dod at debian.org
Mon Feb 29 12:29:58 UTC 2016
Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.64
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
I'm the maintainer of lcdproc package. This package provides drivers
for quite a lot of different HW.
We (lcdproc team and I) don't really know which drivers are used and
which are obsolete.
Looks like we need a popularity-contest for the Driver configured in
/etc/LCDd.conf, so that we'd have data to decide whether to maintain
or drop a driver.
One possibility would be to setup popcon to run a script provided by
package maintainer to gather config data. ( '/etc/popcon.d/lcdproc' ?)
In lcdproc case, the script would be 'grep Driver /etc/LCDd.conf'
The next question are:
- how to formalize the output of the script so popcon can parse it ?
- how to provide package maintainer the statistics of the data
gathered by the script ?
Thoughts ?
All the best
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, armhf
Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.58
ii dpkg 1.18.4
Versions of packages popularity-contest recommends:
ii cron [cron-daemon] 3.0pl1-128
ii exim4 4.86-7
ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.86-7+b2
ii gnupg 1.4.20-4
Versions of packages popularity-contest suggests:
ii anacron 2.3-23
-- debconf information:
* popularity-contest/participate: true
popularity-contest/submiturls:
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