[Popcon-commits] cvs commit to popularity-contest/debian by pere
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Update of /cvsroot/popcon/popularity-contest/debian
In directory quantz:/tmp/cvs-serv4512/debian
Modified Files:
changelog popularity-contest.8
Log Message:
Add URLs to the project home page in manual page and README file.
Index: changelog
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RCS file: /cvsroot/popcon/popularity-contest/debian/changelog,v
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* Petter Reinholdtsen
- Add Dutch debconf template translation (nl.po). File from
Bart Cornelis. (Closes: #217038)
+ - Add URLs to the project home page in manual page and README file.
-- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 2003 19:17:12 +0200
Index: popularity-contest.8
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RCS file: /cvsroot/popcon/popularity-contest/debian/popularity-contest.8,v
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.\" Hey, Emacs! This is an -*- nroff -*- source file.
-.\"
-.\"
-.TH POPULARITY-CONTEST 8 "November 2001" "Debian/GNU Linux"
-.SH NAME
-popularity-contest \- list the most popular Debian packages
-.SH SYNOPSIS
-.B popularity-contest
-.SH DESCRIPTION
+.\"
+.\"
+.TH "POPULARITY-CONTEST" "8" "November 2001" "Debian/GNU Linux" ""
+.SH "NAME"
+popularity\-contest \- list the most popular Debian packages
+.SH "SYNOPSIS"
+.B popularity\-contest
+.SH "DESCRIPTION"
The
-.B popularity-contest
+.B popularity\-contest
command gathers information about Debian packages installed on the system,
and prints the name of the most recently used executable program in that
-package as well as its last-accessed time (atime) and last-attribute-changed
+package as well as its last\-accessed time (atime) and last\-attribute\-changed
time (ctime) to stdout.
-.PP
+.PP
When aggregated with the output of
-.B popularity-contest
+.B popularity\-contest
from many other systems, this information is valuable because it can be used
to determine which Debian packages are commonly installed, used, or
installed and never used. This helps Debian maintainers make decisions such
as which packages should be installed by default on new systems.
-.PP
+.PP
+The resulting statistic is available from the project home page
+http://popcon.alioth.debian.org/.
+.PP
Normally,
-.B popularity-contest
+.B popularity\-contest
is run from a
.BR cron (8)
job,
-.BR /etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest ,
+.BR /etc/cron.weekly/popularity\-contest ,
which automatically emails the results to Debian package maintainers
according to the settings in
-.BR /etc/popularity-contest.conf .
-.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR /etc/popularity\-contest.conf .
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
Additional documentation is in
-.BR /usr/share/doc/popularity-contest/
+.BR /usr/share/doc/popularity\-contest/
.LP
-popcon-largest-unused(8)
-.SH AUTHOR
+popcon\-largest\-unused(8)
+.SH "AUTHOR"
Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@debian.org>.