[Popcon-developers] Bug#255000: Please break down numbers by distro

Bill Allombert Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>, 255000@bugs.debian.org
Fri, 18 Jun 2004 11:26:09 +0200


Hello Thomas,

First, thanks in your interest in popcon!

On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 10:32:59AM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote:
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.20
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> As a maintainer I would be interested to know how many participants
> are running the stable, how many the testing and how many the unstable
> version of my package.

This is not possible currently, since popcon does not report the version
of packages. Even if it did, it is not obvious how to map versions to
distributions, people tending to use outdated packages.

Also there is always the security and privacy concerns.

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

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