Bug#1041440: popularity-contest: Non Debian - non Deb packages should be able to be reported - packages missing from Debian

[Karl Schmidt <karl@lrak.net>]

Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.76
Severity: wishlist

While popcon seems a good idea - it seems that data from repository downloads would do much the same job. 
What would be even more important is gathering statistics on non Debian and even non Deb package software installed.

I would imagine a setting to identify locations of non Debian executables so such data could be collected.

There is a pseudo-package bug - wnpp - that almost no one uses, but I would think that statistics on what 
is missing from Debian would be quite important.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.0
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (990, 'stable-updates'), (990, 'stable-security'), (990, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-10-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.82
ii  dpkg                   1.21.22

Versions of packages popularity-contest recommends:
ii  cron [cron-daemon]                         3.0pl1-162
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent]  4.96-15
ii  gpg                                        2.2.40-1.1

Versions of packages popularity-contest suggests:
ii  anacron   2.3-36
pn  tor       <none>
pn  torsocks  <none>

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