Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 01:38:35PM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote:
>> I'd like to lobby again for the inclusion of my patch at
>> http://bugs.debian.org/238687 again, which reports Alpha
>> subarchitectures and the Debian version. The motivation is to decide
>> whether to drop ev4 or ev56 support. The objections were:
>>
>> * Subarchitecture information should come from another package. Well,
>> there is no such package right now, and it seems silly to start one
>> containing 10 lines of code. Moreover, I would prefer, as a matter
>> of principle, to only report information we are sure is needed for
>> some concrete decision.
>
> At least you can see what kernels are in use:
That does not help in answering the above question for Alpha, since
there are no subarchitecture specific kernels.
> More importantly at this point there are still no reliable way to
> find out the sub-architecture.
I don't understand your point. I've posted a patch. Does it seem
unreliable?
> Collecting data is one thing, processing them is another. I would
> not mind too much reporting the sub-architecture if there was a
> Debian official way to get it.
Maybe. But anyway, such a way does not exist (and "subarchitecture" is
way to fuzzy for this to work reliably and in a useful way anyway,
IMHO.) So, meanwhile, what about my patch?
>> * /etc/debian_version is unreliable. However, I don't think the
>> percentage of users actively setting their /etc/debian_version to
>> something bogus is that high, so it would be still useful.
>
> Actually you can easily know the numbers of submissions from each
> distributions using the version information:
> woody (unknown): 449
> sarge (1.28): 2986
> testing/unstable (1.31/1.32): 6333
> outdated snapshot of testing/unstable (others): 641
>
> I think it is better than what the debian_version would give you.
Hmm, maybe it is, at least if we release a new version of
popularity-contest after each stable release. So I wouldn't insist on
that part of the patch.
--
Falk
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