Re: Debian derivatives census: dpkg vendor information

[Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Kel Modderman wrote:

> What is the benefit of making these changes to Debian, the derivative or the
> end users thereof?

Principally I wanted Debian's popcon site to be able distinguish
between Debian users and users of derivatives:

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/popcon-developers/2012-October/002171.html

I'm not sure about the original motivation for the addition of
dpkg-vendor (Raphael?), but it will be useful for this purpose and
probably others.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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