Here's what http://popcon.ubuntu.com/by_vote says:

#Format
#   
#<name> is the package name;
#<inst> is the number of people who installed this package;
#<vote> is the number of people who use this package regularly;
#<old> is the number of people who installed, but don't use this package
#        regularly;
#<recent> is the number of people who upgraded this package recently;
#<no-files> is the number of people whose entry didn't contain enough
#        information (atime and ctime were 0).
#rank name                            inst  vote   old recent no-files 
(maintainer)
1     perl-base                      452401 134486 303218 14682    15 (Brendan 
O'dea)                 
2     debianutils                    452415 134414 302214 15779     8 (Clint 
Adams)                   
3     grep                           452411 134405 304925 13026    55 (Ryan M. 
Golbeck)      
 :
 :
6890  toshutils                        896    62   791    43     0 (Drew 
Parsons)

(Sorry for the screwy formatting.)

I don't understand how the rank is calculated, but it's in the top
decile (-: -- the full list has 75594 entries.  (Ah, it's simply by
vote, apparently.  A lot of packages have one or zero votes.)

Judging from the comments in Ubuntuforums, a lot of people installed
this only to find out it doesn't work for their BIOS (or many are still
puzzling about what it's supposed to do for them). I guess the vote
might be inflated somewhat if it has an init script which gets run at
every boot, even if it only finds that it can't do anything, and quits.
(I don't know if it does, but IIRC it contains a small daemon of some
sort.)

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