[Popcon-developers] Bug#321365: popularity-contest: documentation of popcon tags v.s. a "vote"
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 09:22:11PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> The distinction is important, because libraries atime is unreliable
> due to the use of ldconfig, so libraries are marked NOFILES, but we still
> want to know about libraries usage, so the use of dependencies allow to
> make recently used libraries as "voted".
Makes sense.
> I will add the following to the FAQ
>
> Q) What is considered a 'vote' for a package ?
>
> A) A computer 'vote' for a package if according to the data provided in the
> report, a program provided or depending on the package was used less than
> thirty days ago. This computation is performed by the popcon server.
>
> I hope this clear this issue.
Yes, that helps a lot.
One clarification, though: the popularity-contest report does not
contain any package version info, so I'm curious what data the server
uses when calculating package dependencies.
(For example, does it just use the dependency list for the latest
known version of that package in any Debian release? Or does it just
use the set of dependencies from one specific release, and ignore
packages it finds that aren't in that release? Etc.)
Nathan
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