On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 02:21:04AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > Hello. > > For the purposes of determining whether or not "most users need to > change the /etc/locale.gen file" Ben and I need an estimate of the > proportion of Debian users using locales among all Debian users. > > [ See Bug #111008 for details ]. > > I think we can consider the volume or the number of subscribers of the > debian-user mailing list, and compare it with the volume or the number > of subscribers of all other language-specific debian-user-foo lists > combined. Is there anybody who can do this count? > > Can you think of another way to estimate the proportion of users using > locales? There is a package called 'popularity-contest' .
It looks for most used files/packages and sends them out anonymously to be compiled into statistics. Maybe you can talk to it's maintainer, and see if he is willing to look into locales statistics in the next release? > > Thanks. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- GPG key-id: 1024D/5BE3DCFD Dmitriy CCAB 5F17 A099 9E43 1DBE 295C 9A21 2F1C 5BE3 DCFD Adobe put Dmitry in jail for the crime against society of revealing that they were selling ROT-13 as "encryption." He is rotting in US prison as a political prisoner for speaking out. Free Dmitry Sklyarov! http://www.freesklyarov.org
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