Yes, still it's an interesting issue... perhaps one count how many which actually are installed, but many problems also here: users privacy/opt-in, easily spoofed, infrastructure.
In any case it would be great to have some estimate on this. On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 9:40 PM, Michael Schwendt <mschwe...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 12:08:49 -0800, Jorge Gallegos wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I maintain the uwsgi package for fedora, which optionally builds a bunch > > of modules to integrate with several other languages. One of the plugins > > got recently removed upstream but it hasn't got any replacements yet (see > > the top of http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Erlang.html) > > > > Currently f19 and f20 have 1.9.19 available, and I would like to update > > to 1.9.21 but that would mean I have to deprecate the existing package > > uwsgi-plugin-erlang. Is this the correct approach? adding an obsoletes > > tag in the spec for uwsgi-plugin-erlang < 1.9.20 ? > > That would be the only way to withdraw the package from users' > installations, especially if not obsoleting it would result in broken > dependencies. > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Renaming.2FReplacing_Existing_Packages > > Depending on how popular the package might be, such breakage could > annoy users. > > > Tangential question, do we have statistics of how many times this (or > > any other) package has been downloaded? > > Hardly feasible, given that every mirror server would need to count > downloads and submit the results to the Fedora Project, and then one could > still not conclude safely whether a package has been installed actually > and is still in use (or has been downloaded/mirrored only). > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
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