On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:47:30PM +0200, Noel David Torres Taño wrote: > > 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.
wmaker-data only contains icons in TIFF format and has no reverse dependencies, so we cannot check whether this package was used recently. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]