On 7/18/23 11:07PM, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
[Karl Schmidt]While popcon seems a good idea - it seems that data from repository downloads would do much the same job.Due to the distributed nature of the mirroring setup, there are no such data, so it can not be used like that.
It Would be possible to fix that. Data just from one server would give a pretty good idea of the popularity. People that run popcon likewise are a subset of the real picture. A scrip could look at the download logs - make a count - you could then compare with popcon to see if the numbers match - I think they would.
What would be even more important is gathering statistics on non Debian and even non Deb package software installed.This has been discussed for a while. You might find for example <URL: https://bugs.debian.org/632438 > illuminating.
Interesting. For example - I know there are a lot of people still using komposer - nothing really replaces it. The number of people running appimage packages in place of the older debian versions would be interesting to know as well. The non-debian executable information seems more important than popcon to me. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Karl Schmidt EMail karl@lrak.net 3209 West 9th Street Ph (785) 841-3089 Lawrence, KS 66049 Modernity is the denial of uncertainty; a false narrative. -kps --------------------------------------------------------------------------------