El Wednesday 27 August 2008 23:02:26 Bill Allombert escribió: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:35:30PM +0200, Noel David Torres Taño wrote: > > Package: popularity-contest > > Version: 1.45 > > Severity: important > > > > > > Actually popcon is unable to send votes for packages like > > kdemultimedia or libxcursor1 because they have no executables. > > Hello Noel, > > You are misunderstanding how popcon vote works. > > 1) popcon does not really send votes for individual packages. Votes are > computed on the server from the report. The FAQ says: > > Q) What is considered a 'vote' for a package ? > > A) A computer 'vote' for a package if according to the data provided in the > report, a program provided or depending on the package was used less than > thirty days ago. This computation is performed by the popcon server. > > 2) Executables files are not treated specially. > > 3) libxcursor1 has actually 27015 votes: > $ wget -O- -q http://popcon.debian.org/by_vote | grep libxcursor1 > 192 libxcursor1 55969 27015 9400 8189 11365 (Debian X > Strike Force) > > 4) kdemultimedia does not have any real content so it does not > deserve any votes, since it can be removed without ill effect. > Here the file list of kdemultimedia: > > /usr/share/doc/kdemultimedia/changelog.Debian.gz > /usr/share/doc/kdemultimedia/copyright > > Cheers,
Well, please let me explain where I saw it first time and you maybe can help me with that. I've popularity-contest installed, and wmaker with wmaker-data. But I saw this: 0 0 wmaker-data <NOFILES> What is happening there? I have lots of those 0 0 packages, mostly libs and data packages. Many thanks Noel Torres er Envite
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