[Popcon-developers] Bug#730620: Bug#730620: popularity-contest: Please improve machine readability of the raw data

[Johannes Schauer]

Hi,

Quoting Bill Allombert (2013-11-27 13:47:26)
> All of this is irrelevant: what actual problem are you trying to solve ?

I need the popcon values per source package.

> I can write a 10-line perl script to parse each of them. Maybe other people
> have done so and changing the format will cause them trouble.  So there is a
> need for a clear benefit before changing the format.

My workaround is to split each line at the spaces and discard all lines which
split into a different amount than seven elements.

If you do not deem it worthwhile to make these kind of workarounds unnecessary
by just making sure that delimiter characters do not appear in field values,
then just close this bug report.

cheers, josch