On Tue, 2021-11-16 at 13:38 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > What is the idea exactly ? Bálint's idea was to ship popcon data in a popcon-stats-data package in the Debian archive. I suggested to instead ship that in the apt metadata present in the Packages files. > How often the popcon data are going to be refreshed ? I would assume with the same frequency as the existing data on the popcon.d.o website is refreshed. Anything faster than that would just be refreshing unchanged data. Anything slower than that would be providing outdated data. Outdated data is fine though, so maybe weekly. > Which exact set of data are going to be used ? Initially I thought similar to the QA per-package popcon data: https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=iotop Package: iotop Popcon: 30314 7962 21197 1143 12 If I massage the by_inst file into the same format as this, I calculate that the extra Popcon fields would add 3.7 MB to the Packages files and that data would change often, making the apt updating process slower. So probably the data should go into new files instead and there should be a config file snippet to enable downloading them, a tool to query and index them and a way for apt clients to get that data. Since the Debian repository splits the metadata by suite and component, these new statistics should probably do the same. So the raw popcon submissions would need to be individually mapped to a suite based on the popcon version in the submission, and then each item in the submission attributed to that suite/component. For popcon versions that don't match a suite, if they match a known Debian version, attribute them to the next highest suite and discard submissions with popcon versions that were never in Debian, or maybe attribute them to the relevant vendor separately. popcon submissions that don't have Debian as the vendor probably should be discarded, or maybe attribute them to the relevant vendor separately. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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