[Forwarded to and CCing the debian-popcon mailing list] On Sun, 2021-11-14 at 21:43 +0100, Bálint Réczey wrote:
> 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. ... > 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. This package would be very Debian specific and would give the wrong data when installed in Ubuntu, I think a better approach would be to ship this data in the Debian apt repository metadata, either in the Packages files or in Popularity files in the dists/ dir (similar to the Contents files used by apt-file) so that the data is directly available to apt clients like aptitude/etc. This way Ubuntu and other derivatives could also ship popularity data for their users too. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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