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

[Falk Hueffner]

Hi,

I'd like to lobby again for the inclusion of my patch at
http://bugs.debian.org/238687 again, which reports Alpha
subarchitectures and the Debian version. The motivation is to decide
whether to drop ev4 or ev56 support. The objections were:

* Subarchitecture information should come from another package. Well,
  there is no such package right now, and it seems silly to start one
  containing 10 lines of code. Moreover, I would prefer, as a matter
  of principle, to only report information we are sure is needed for
  some concrete decision.

* /etc/debian_version is unreliable. However, I don't think the
  percentage of users actively setting their /etc/debian_version to
  something bogus is that high, so it would be still useful.

It would be nice to get some more opinions on this...

-- 
	Falk