Bug#999677: RFP: popcon-stats-data -- Debian's Popularity Contest statistics
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : popcon-stats-data
Version : 0.20211114
* URL or Web page : https://popcon.debian.org/
* License : Public Domain (data)
Description : Debian's Popularity Contest statistics
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The shipped data would let package managers show the popularity of
packages which could let users make more informed decisions when
choosing between packages to install.
I don't believe this will change the Vim vs. Emacs battle, but when I
looked for a DICOM viewer I found a crazy amount of programs of
various quality and knowing which ones were the most widely used would
have sped up picking a good one.
Ideally the stats would be shipped in a format from which APT and
other package managers could efficiently look up the percentage of
Debian systems a particular binary package was used.
Cheers,
Balint
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