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

[Bill Allombert]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 02:30:04PM -0500, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 07:59:44PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > > 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". 
> 
> 
> Hmmm, that sounds like an easy explaination, but doesn't seem to match
> what I'm seeing...

Well, OK in reality this is bit more involved.

There are three separate processes:
1) computation of votes
2) computation of sections.
3) computation of maintainers.

The process 1) use both the stable and unstable dependencies but
unstable ones have precedences.

The process 2) use slink potato woody sarge etch and unstable
sections, the latest having preferences.

The process 3) use only sid (Rational being that only the sid maintainer
is actually maintaining the package).

Cheers,
Bill.