[Popcon-developers] Bug#570650: popcon.debian.org: please provide more granularity on the information

[Vincent Fourmond]

Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.48
Severity: wishlist

  Hello,

  Often, I would be interested to know more than just "how many
percents of the people have this package ?": it would be great if one
could have more information, such as correlations "how many people
have this and that packages ?" installed at the same time, or "how many
people still use the buggy 1.0.1-2 version of this software ?".

  You definitely have the information somewhere (except for the
version information, it seems, but it wouldn't be too difficult to
get). The question then is how to store/disclose this information,
without losing anonimity.

  Maybe it would be interesting to publish the raw emails (without the
mail envelope, of course), or would that be too big ? (around 100k *
90 000 submitters is one gigabyte, but I guess it should compress
really well). Other formats could make it much more compact.

  My guess is that using fully this data would enable us to know much
more than just "which package is the most popular ?".

  Cheers,

	Vincent, who can't help wanting more information when looking
at his popcon graphs


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.28     Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                          1.15.5.6   Debian package management system

Versions of packages popularity-contest recommends:
ii  cron                          3.0pl1-106 process scheduling daemon
ii  postfix [mail-transport-agent 2.7.0-1    High-performance mail transport ag

Versions of packages popularity-contest suggests:
ii  anacron                       2.3-14     cron-like program that doesn't go 

-- debconf information:
  popularity-contest/submiturls:
* popularity-contest/participate: true