[Popcon-developers] popcon & derivatives

[Paul Wise]

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 4:46 AM, Bill Allombert wrote:

> Could you check the git branch bill-VENDOR I have made for that feature ?
> Ideally one some derivative distribution.

Some thoughts on vendor stuff in general:

I would suggest that the default should be to report an empty VENDOR:
in popcon submissions when the vendor is not defined. The server side
should store vendors as they are submitted, not map them to Debian for
storage. I don't understand the server side well, but the statistics
and output files should be calculated based on reports with a vendor
field that is empty or with a vendor field that is the same as the
dpkg vendor of the popcon server. This would make it easier for
derivatives to setup their own popcon servers.

Your branch is missing the change I made to
examples/bin/popcon-stat.pl, I think it would be useful for popcon.d.o
to keep track of which derivatives are popular.

I think this change could be mentioned in the package changelog and
the NEWS.Debian file.

The package description still mentions Debian, reattached the patch for that.

More thoughts in my initial mail:

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/popcon-developers/2012-October/002171.html

-- 
bye,
pabs

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