[Popcon-developers] Re: popularity-contest rewrite

[pere@hungry.com (Petter Reinholdtsen)]

[Bill Allombert]
> dpkg-architecture is for the *build* architecture. It use binutils
> to get it.  This has not a lot of sense for us since we don't intent
> to build packages. Instead I use the architecture used to build
> perl. That should match the binary tag.

If the result is the same text string, I see no problem changing this
to use the perl string instead.

> Anyway we have no infrastructure to make any use of the result
> currently.

Actually, I added code to recieve and process this information.  It is
not used yet, but the code is there.

> popularity-contest extract a list of files from the package and use
> the most recent access time. When the list is empty there are no
> information available. But the way the list is constructed is a bit
> silly. For example it is empty for most shared libs.

So your intention is to not report the "last used" time for packages
without files in them, and in addition, fix the handling of shared
libraries?

> Most bugs imply changes the email processing that read
> apenwarr-survey@d.o and of course only Avery can do that.  So the
> priority is to get a dedidacted address and move the email
> processing outside Avery hand. (I suppose we can him to forward
> apenwarr-survey to another adress or somehing similar).

I agree.  I do not expect any problems with adding a forward once the
generic mail address is in place.

Martin Michlmayr contacted me regarding popcon, trying to find out if
it should be orphaned or not.  He is now more up to date with the
current status.  He said he wanted to help me getting a more generic
mail address.  I'll post a summary of the discussion me and Avery
already had with the Debian sysadmins when I find time to do that.

> 202675 is no exception unless you want to implement really kludgy
> things. Also what to do with drivers built-in in the kernel ?

Yeah, I am not sure how to best do this.

> Also we needs to be very honest toward users about what popcon
> really report.

Yes, of course.  How come?

BTW: I am moving this discussion to the public developer mailing list.