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Bug#238687: popularity-contest: popularity contest should provide subarch info.

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It's been quite a while since this bug was discussed, but I have another 
use case where it might be interesting...

There has been some recent discussion about "Architecture Variants" and 
in particular amd64 variants. Fedora and Ubuntu are both working on 
experiments with the goal of being able to optimize for newer versions 
of the amd64 architecture (and potentially dropping older variants at 
some point as well). Here is a page that gathers info on this idea for 
Debian

https://wiki.debian.org/ArchitectureVariants

Knowing information about which variants our installed base is using 
would help make these decisions easier. The past i386 decisions were a 
little easier because there were particular packages we could look at to 
get those numbers.

Side note....
In addition to this bug, it seems there are some other cases where 
people would like to press popcon into service to gather other things:

kernel modules
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=202675

report arch only
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=545000

report foreign architectures
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=931764

Package versions
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=97045

aptitude auto flag
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=313194

package config file data
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=816281

We can understand why it is tempting to want to do so. But there are 
also privacy and scope implications. So maybe the first step is a clear 
policy of what is appropriate for popcon to do, and the things that 
aren't should be WONTFIX.

Thanks,

-- 
Matt Taggart
matt@lackof.org

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Bug#238687: popularity-contest: popularity contest should provide subarch info. Matt Taggart <matt@lackof.org> - 2024-01-13 22:10 +0100
  Bug#238687: popularity-contest: popularity contest should provide subarch info. Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> - 2024-01-14 15:10 +0100

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