Bug#1115619: popularity-contest should collect underlying hardware information
On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 02:50:56PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> 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].
popularity-contest purpose is to collect packages usage, not hardware usage.
However some hardware usage can be inferred from software usage, by looking at
hardware specific packages, like kernels and formware packages.
> I think it would be useful to have popularity-contest collect
> information on the underlying hardware to guide arch decisions.
See bug #238687.
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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