Bug#1115619: popularity-contest should collect underlying hardware information

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 02:50:56PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > 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.

Thank you sir!