Bug#999677: RFP: popcon-stats-data -- Debian's Popularity Contest statistics

[Bálint Réczey <balint@balintreczey.hu>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : popcon-stats-data
  Version         : 0.20211114
* URL or Web page : https://popcon.debian.org/
* License         : Public Domain (data)
  Description     : Debian's Popularity Contest statistics

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The shipped data would let package managers show the popularity of
packages which could let users make more informed decisions when
choosing between packages to install.

I don't believe this will change the Vim vs. Emacs battle, but when I
looked for a DICOM viewer I found a crazy amount of programs of
various quality and knowing which ones were the most widely used would
have sped up picking a good one.

Ideally the stats would be shipped in a format from which APT and
other package managers could efficiently look up the percentage of
Debian systems a particular binary package was used.

Cheers,
Balint