On Tue, 2023-07-18 at 16:20 -0500, Karl Schmidt wrote: > While popcon seems a good idea - it seems that data from repository > downloads would do much the same job. User related statistics should be opt-in, turning on logs on the repository mirrors would mean it would be impossible to opt-out. > statistics on non Debian [.deb packages] These are already present in the popcon data, see "unknown" on: https://popcon.debian.org/ > and even non Deb package software installed. There are so many different packaging ecosystems that this would be infeasible. They also often have their own telemetry submissions. > I would imagine a setting to identify locations of non Debian > executables so such data could be collected. I think this is a bit too invasive, these could be stored in /usr/local or home directories, or /srv or /opt or random other directories. > There is a pseudo-package bug - wnpp - that almost no one uses, This is widely used, there are hundreds of open RFPs. Some of them even result in someone doing the work to package things, #1041232 for eg. > I would think that statistics on what is missing from Debian would be > quite important. In practice it is quite irrelevant, because something missing from Debian that lots of people use doesn't mean any person has the time, skills and motivation to package it nor that it will be possible to package or even redistribute. Usually contributors have some form of personal interest in the things they package for Debian, rather than packaging popular things that they have no interest in. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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