Bug#238687: popularity-contest: popularity contest should provide subarch info.
On Sat, Jan 13, 2024 at 12:51:47PM -0800, Matt Taggart wrote:
> It's been quite a while since this bug was discussed, but I have another use
> case where it might be interesting...
>
> There has been some recent discussion about "Architecture Variants" and in
> particular amd64 variants. Fedora and Ubuntu are both working on experiments
> with the goal of being able to optimize for newer versions of the amd64
> architecture (and potentially dropping older variants at some point as
> well). Here is a page that gathers info on this idea for Debian
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/ArchitectureVariants
>
> Knowing information about which variants our installed base is using would
> help make these decisions easier. The past i386 decisions were a little
> easier because there were particular packages we could look at to get those
> numbers.
Hello Matt, thanks for reviving this bug.
Note that unfortunately, none of the requirement I set up in the my previous
answer to this bug have been addressed.
In particular, there is no official definition of subarchitecture and tool
that report it that popcon could use.
However, I doubt the practicality of reporting subarchitectures:
1/ users might not be running the latest Debian release, and there is no way to know
if they plan to upgrade.
2/ the number of users running some subarchitectures is likely to be very small,
which breaks anonymity.
Cheers,
Bill
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