Bug#1115619: popularity-contest should collect underlying hardware information
Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.78
X-Debbugs-CC: glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de
Tags: trixie
Popularity Contest is used to collect information on packages
installed by users. However, there is currently a need to determine
whether a particular architecture should be supported, but
popularity-contest does not collect the information. See [1] and [2].
I think it would be useful to have popularity-contest collect
information on the underlying hardware to guide arch decisions.
[1] "Removing dpkg arch definitions for powerpcspe?" (Sept 2025),
<https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2025/09/msg00021.html>
[2] "Let's start a survey on our userbase" (Sept 2025),
<https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2025/09/msg00124.html>
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