[Popcon-developers] Bug#545000: popularity-contest: popcon should have option to report arch only

[osamu@debian.org (Osamu Aoki)]

Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.46
Severity: wishlist

While popcon report numbers are refereed sometimes to assess
architecture popularity,

While some admins are reluctant to report softwares used in detail for
their system,

While /etc/popularity-contest.conf contains most basic configuration of
popularity-contest,

Wile /etc/popularity-contest.conf is missing configuration to shut off
reporting package lists,

It will be nice to have the following option as technical compromise:

REPORT="full"
REPORT="arch"

and using this value to skip following part in /usr/sbin/popularity-contest

# Read dpkg database of installed packages
open PACKAGES, "dpkg-query --show --showformat='\${status} \${package}\\n'|";
while (<PACKAGES>)
{
  ....
}

With this, we get more reports.

This is better solution than "report-once" as proposed others.  At least we know
how many "ACTIVE" sites.

Osamu

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.24     Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                          1.14.25    Debian package management system

Versions of packages popularity-contest recommends:
ii  cron                          3.0pl1-105 management of regular background p
ii  exim4                         4.69-9     metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4) 
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.69-9     lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon

Versions of packages popularity-contest suggests:
ii  anacron                       2.3-13.1   cron-like program that doesn't go 

-- debconf information:
  popularity-contest/submiturls:
* popularity-contest/participate: true