On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 01:38:35PM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to lobby again for the inclusion of my patch at > http://bugs.debian.org/238687 again, which reports Alpha > subarchitectures and the Debian version. The motivation is to decide > whether to drop ev4 or ev56 support. The objections were: > > * Subarchitecture information should come from another package. Well, > there is no such package right now, and it seems silly to start one > containing 10 lines of code. Moreover, I would prefer, as a matter > of principle, to only report information we are sure is needed for > some concrete decision.
At least you can see what kernels are in use: From http://popcon.debian.org/main/base/by_vote 181 linux-image-2.6.15-1-486 295 0 0 0 295 182 linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 791 0 0 0 791 183 linux-image-2.6.15-1-686-smp 209 0 0 0 209 184 linux-image-2.6.15-1-alpha-generic 3 0 0 0 3 185 linux-image-2.6.15-1-alpha-smp 1 0 0 0 1 186 linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7 416 0 0 0 416 187 linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7-smp 27 0 0 0 27 188 linux-image-2.6.15-1-mac 1 0 0 0 1 189 linux-image-2.6.15-1-mckinley 3 0 0 0 3 190 linux-image-2.6.15-1-mckinley-smp 2 0 0 0 2 191 linux-image-2.6.15-1-mvme16x 1 0 0 0 1 192 linux-image-2.6.15-1-nslu2 2 0 0 0 2 193 linux-image-2.6.15-1-parisc 4 0 0 0 4 194 linux-image-2.6.15-1-parisc64 3 0 0 0 3 195 linux-image-2.6.15-1-powerpc64 2 0 0 0 2 196 linux-image-2.6.15-1-s390x 1 0 0 0 1 197 linux-image-2.6.15-1-s3c2410 1 0 0 0 1 198 linux-image-2.6.15-1-sparc64 16 0 0 0 16 199 linux-image-2.6.15-1-sparc64-smp 3 0 0 0 3 More importantly at this point there are still no reliable way to find out the sub-architecture. Collecting data is one thing, processing them is another. I would not mind too much reporting the sub-architecture if there was a Debian official way to get it. > * /etc/debian_version is unreliable. However, I don't think the > percentage of users actively setting their /etc/debian_version to > something bogus is that high, so it would be still useful. Actually you can easily know the numbers of submissions from each distributions using the version information: woody (unknown): 449 sarge (1.28): 2986 testing/unstable (1.31/1.32): 6333 outdated snapshot of testing/unstable (others): 641 I think it is better than what the debian_version would give you. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
