[Popcon-developers] Bug#238687: Submit Debian release and subarchs
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 01:38:35PM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to lobby again for the inclusion of my patch at
> http://bugs.debian.org/238687 again, which reports Alpha
> subarchitectures and the Debian version. The motivation is to decide
> whether to drop ev4 or ev56 support. The objections were:
>
> * Subarchitecture information should come from another package. Well,
> there is no such package right now, and it seems silly to start one
> containing 10 lines of code. Moreover, I would prefer, as a matter
> of principle, to only report information we are sure is needed for
> some concrete decision.
At least you can see what kernels are in use:
From http://popcon.debian.org/main/base/by_vote
181 linux-image-2.6.15-1-486 295 0 0 0 295
182 linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 791 0 0 0 791
183 linux-image-2.6.15-1-686-smp 209 0 0 0 209
184 linux-image-2.6.15-1-alpha-generic 3 0 0 0 3
185 linux-image-2.6.15-1-alpha-smp 1 0 0 0 1
186 linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7 416 0 0 0 416
187 linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7-smp 27 0 0 0 27
188 linux-image-2.6.15-1-mac 1 0 0 0 1
189 linux-image-2.6.15-1-mckinley 3 0 0 0 3
190 linux-image-2.6.15-1-mckinley-smp 2 0 0 0 2
191 linux-image-2.6.15-1-mvme16x 1 0 0 0 1
192 linux-image-2.6.15-1-nslu2 2 0 0 0 2
193 linux-image-2.6.15-1-parisc 4 0 0 0 4
194 linux-image-2.6.15-1-parisc64 3 0 0 0 3
195 linux-image-2.6.15-1-powerpc64 2 0 0 0 2
196 linux-image-2.6.15-1-s390x 1 0 0 0 1
197 linux-image-2.6.15-1-s3c2410 1 0 0 0 1
198 linux-image-2.6.15-1-sparc64 16 0 0 0 16
199 linux-image-2.6.15-1-sparc64-smp 3 0 0 0 3
More importantly at this point there are still no reliable way to find
out the sub-architecture. Collecting data is one thing, processing them
is another. I would not mind too much reporting the sub-architecture if
there was a Debian official way to get it.
> * /etc/debian_version is unreliable. However, I don't think the
> percentage of users actively setting their /etc/debian_version to
> something bogus is that high, so it would be still useful.
Actually you can easily know the numbers of submissions from each
distributions using the version information:
woody (unknown): 449
sarge (1.28): 2986
testing/unstable (1.31/1.32): 6333
outdated snapshot of testing/unstable (others): 641
I think it is better than what the debian_version would give you.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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