Bug#1041440: popularity-contest: Non Debian - non Deb packages should be able to be reported - packages missing from Debian

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Karl Schmidt]
> While popcon seems a good idea - it seems that data from repository
> downloads would do much the same job.

Due to the distributed nature of the mirroring setup, there are no such
data, so it can not be used like that.

> What would be even more important is gathering statistics on non
> Debian and even non Deb package software installed.

This has been discussed for a while.  You might find for example
<URL: https://bugs.debian.org/632438 > illuminating.

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen