[Popcon-developers] Bug#496831: popularity-contest: Does not send votes for non-program packages

[Noel David Torres Taño]

El Wednesday 27 August 2008 23:02:26 Bill Allombert escribió:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:35:30PM +0200, Noel David Torres Taño wrote:
> > Package: popularity-contest
> > Version: 1.45
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > 
> > Actually popcon is unable to send votes for packages like
> > kdemultimedia or libxcursor1 because they have no executables.
> 
> Hello Noel,
> 
> You are misunderstanding how popcon vote works.
> 
> 1) popcon does not really send votes for individual packages. Votes are
> computed on the server from the report. The FAQ says:
> 
>   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.  
> 
> 2) Executables files are not treated specially.
> 
> 3) libxcursor1 has actually 27015 votes:
> $ wget -O- -q http://popcon.debian.org/by_vote | grep libxcursor1
> 192   libxcursor1                    55969 27015  9400  8189 11365 (Debian X Strike Force)
> 
> 4) kdemultimedia does not have any real content so it does not
> deserve any votes, since it can be removed without ill effect.
> Here the file list of kdemultimedia:
> 
>  /usr/share/doc/kdemultimedia/changelog.Debian.gz
>  /usr/share/doc/kdemultimedia/copyright
> 
> Cheers,


Well, please let me explain where I saw it first time and you maybe can help me with that.

I've popularity-contest installed, and wmaker with wmaker-data. But I saw this:
0 0 wmaker-data <NOFILES>
What is happening there? I have lots of those 0 0 packages, mostly libs and data packages.

Many thanks

Noel Torres
er Envite
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