[Popcon-developers] Bug#238687: Submit Debian release and subarchs

[Falk Hueffner]

Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com> writes:

> [Falk Hueffner]
>> So I suggest something like the following patch. It only determines
>> this information for Alpha, since I'm not sure how to get it for
>> other architectures, and in particular, which categories would be
>> relevant. Opinions?
>
> Thank you for the patch.  But I do not want to teach the
> popularity-contest client about all the subarchis in debian.  I
> would prefer to leave this to some other package, being maintained
> by someone else.  I believe there is something like this in d-i, and
> I would like a patch to use it.

AFAIK, there is nothing in d-i that detects Alpha subarchitectures,
for example, because they are not relevant there. Also, the level of
detailedness is probably different for d-i. I don't want to gather
random data, but answer conrete questions like "does anybody use sid
on a pre-EV56 machine so that we shouldn't drop support for it". So we
wouldn't teach popularity-contest about all kinds of subarchitectures,
but only those where anybody cares about distinguishing them.

> As for submitting the content of /etc/debian_version, we tried that
> for a while, but discovered that it was useless, because of the
> strange strings people place in them.

Well, a majority probably doesn't ever fiddle with
/etc/debian_version, so this seems hard to believe. Do you have the
result somewhere?

-- 
	Falk