[Popcon-developers] Bug#816281: popularity-contest: should allow to collect parts of package configuration

[dod@debian.org (Dominique Dumont)]

Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.64
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

I'm the maintainer of lcdproc package. This package provides drivers
for quite a lot of different HW.

We (lcdproc team and I) don't really know which drivers are used and
which are obsolete.

Looks like we need a popularity-contest for the Driver configured in
/etc/LCDd.conf, so that we'd have data to decide whether to maintain
or drop a driver.

One possibility would be to setup popcon to run a script provided by
package maintainer to gather config data. ( '/etc/popcon.d/lcdproc' ?)
In lcdproc case, the script would be 'grep Driver /etc/LCDd.conf'

The next question are:
- how to formalize the output of the script so popcon can parse it ?
- how to provide package maintainer the statistics of the data
  gathered by the script ?

Thoughts ?

All the best

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, armhf

Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.58
ii  dpkg                   1.18.4

Versions of packages popularity-contest recommends:
ii  cron [cron-daemon]                         3.0pl1-128
ii  exim4                                      4.86-7
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent]  4.86-7+b2
ii  gnupg                                      1.4.20-4

Versions of packages popularity-contest suggests:
ii  anacron  2.3-23

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