[Popcon-developers] Bug#270514: popularity-contest: Support hinting for what files are counted
Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.24
Severity: wishlist
To avoid false positives, popcon limits the files it scans for
last-usage-timestamps. The heuristics for what files to look at work
for most packages, but not for all.
For example, the bubblemon package has its GNOME panel plugin binary
in "/usr/lib/bubblemon/bubblemon-gnome2". That binary isn't scanned
by popcon. Thus, the popcon results says that a bunch of people has
bubblemon installed, but nobody ever used it.
To work around this problem it would be nice if popcon could support
something like a /etc/popularity-contest.d directory where packages
could put information about binaries outside of the usual search paths
of popcon. For example, the bubblemon package could contain a
/etc/popularity-contest.d/bubblemon file containing one line containing
the name of the file to scan.
When run, popcon would scan files listed in /etc/popularity-contest.d
in addition to the files it scans currently.
Regards //Johan
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-1-686
Locale: LANG=sv_SE, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE
Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii debconf 1.4.30.2 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.10.23 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii exim [mail-transport-agent] 3.36-11 An MTA (Mail Transport Agent)
-- debconf information:
* popularity-contest/participate: true
* popularity-contest/intro:
popularity-contest/hostid-failed:
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