[Popcon-developers] Debian derivatives guidelines: popcon
Hi all,
The derivatives guidelines[1] mention popcon[2] and suggest submitting
to both popcon.debian.org and popcon.example.org.
Can the popcon devs (CCed) please comment on this suggestion, is it
appropriate to do that?
Does anyone know of any distributions other than Ubuntu that have a
popcon server and modify popcon to use it? The derivatives census
indicates only that Ubuntu has a popcon server.
Currently the Ubuntu popcon does not comply with this suggestion[3].
The Ubuntu popcon server has about 20 times the submissions of Debian,
do the popcon devs think that adding them is a good idea? If so, would
the Ubuntu folks be willing to add the Debian popcon server back in to
the list of servers for user submissions? This will skew popcon
results in favour of desktop users but would also give the DEX/Ubuntu
project[4] a better idea about which packages to focus on for adding
Ubuntu packages to Debian[5].
PS: looking at the Ubuntu diff, customising popcon looks a bit hard.
It would be nice if derivative distros and maybe also large-scale
enterprise users could drop a file in
/usr/share/popularity-contest/conf.d/ or
/etc/popularity-contest.conf.d/ to change the configuration easily.
1. http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Guidelines
2. http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Guidelines#Popularity_Contest
3. http://patches.ubuntu.com/p/popularity-contest/popularity-contest_1.51ubuntu1.patch
4. http://dex.alioth.debian.org/ubuntu/
5. http://dex.alioth.debian.org/ubuntu/new-packages/
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bye,
pabs
http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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