[Popcon-developers] popcon & derivatives

[Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr (Bill Allombert)]

On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 09:42:28AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> > The computation of the popcon vote relies on the dependencies graphs. Without
> > the knowledge of the derivatives Packages files, the votes are not computed
> > accurately.
> 
> Hmm, I wasn't aware of that. How does popcon deal with unknown
> packages then?

Unknown packages are assumed to have no dependency, so they do not generate 'vote'
for the dependencies.

> Also, wnpp.d.n uses popcon vote info to annotate
> RFP/ITP/etc bugs:
> 
> http://wnpp.debian.net/?type[]=ITP&type[]=RFP&sort=installs;desc

This use the number of install, not the number of vote.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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