[Popcon-developers] Bug#321365: popularity-contest: documentation of popcon tags v.s. a "vote"

[Bill Allombert]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 11:45:45AM -0500, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 09:22:11PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > The distinction is important, because libraries atime is unreliable
> > due to the use of ldconfig, so libraries are marked NOFILES, but we still
> > want to know about libraries usage, so the use of dependencies allow to
> > make recently used libraries as "voted".
> 
> Makes sense.
>  
> > I will add the following to the FAQ
> > 
> > Q) What is considered a 'vote' for a package ?
> > 
> > A) A computer 'vote' for a package if according to the data provided in the
> >    report, a program provided or depending on the package was used less than
> >    thirty days ago. This computation is performed by the popcon server.
> > 
> > I hope this clear this issue.
> 
> 
> Yes, that helps a lot.
> 
> One clarification, though: the popularity-contest report does not
> contain any package version info, so I'm curious what data the server
> uses when calculating package dependencies.  

It uses the sid dependencies. That is why packages not in sid are marked
in section "unknown" with maintainer "not in sid". 

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

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