[Popcon-developers] Bug#218230: popularity-contest: Offering results by section

[Quim Gil]

Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.7
Severity: wishlist
Tags: sid

Currently the results are offered in a raw list or divided by 
distributions. This is good for Debian developers and people able to 
recognize many packages just by its name. It also useful to people 
concern on 100% free software and the like.

>From a basic (average?) user point of view it would be interesting to 
have also avalable listings divided by sections. That would allow such 
users to understand better wich packages are more popular in a specific 
field.

Say I like Gnome and I want to know if I'm missing a popular package I 
simply ignore.

Say I want to seduce my small cousins to use Debian and I'd like to know 
which games are plaid most.

Say I'd like to start trying some sound software but really wanting to 
start by the mainstream options and I just find lots of players.

And so on.

Sorry if you have also agreed something like that already. I'll keep an 
eye to the evolution of this interesting package.  :)

Quim

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux tort 2.4.20 #1 Sun May 4 18:12:18 CEST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=es_ES@euro, LC_CTYPE=es_ES@euro (ignored: LC_ALL set to ca_ES@euro)

Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii  debconf                       1.3.15     Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                          1.10.15    Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  exim [mail-transport-agent]   3.36-9     An MTA (Mail Transport Agent)
ii  perl                          5.8.1-2    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

-- debconf information:
* popularity-contest/intro: 
* popularity-contest/participate: true