Re: Historical data
On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 07:04:02PM -0400, Anthony Canino wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> Thank you for all your help so far! As Kihong said, we have been working
> with some of the popcorn data, and have come across some interesting
> behavior that I hope you can help resolve if you don't mind.
>
> When I run wget on a on my local system and look at the popularity-contest
> statistics, I see that wget is reported as having been used (and should
> count for a "vote") but one of its dependencies, libssl1.1, is never
> counted. I know that wget is uses the actual libssl shared library from
> some system monitoring tools (for reference, I run `wget
> https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.20.tar.gz`). This surprises me; I
> expect popcorn to catch libssl usage, as I see that it is tracked on the
> actual popcorn webpage.
>
> I feel that I am missing something here. Does popularity-contest track
> shared library usage?
Yes, but this is done server-side.
When you 'vote ' for a package, the server code propagate your 'vote' to
all its dependencies.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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