Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-17 Thread John Goerzen
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 01:08:59AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 11:27:37AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 11:41:59PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: You said you wanted things out of non-free. Um... he's posted the rest of that sentence at least twice,

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-17 Thread Raul Miller
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 11:27:37AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: This is Goerzen lying by claiming that i said i want to pollute main with non-free stuff. On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 11:41:59PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: You said you wanted things out of non-free. Um... he's posted the rest of

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-17 Thread John Goerzen
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 01:08:59AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 11:27:37AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 11:41:59PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: You said you wanted things out of non-free. Um... he's posted the rest of that sentence at least twice,

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-16 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 07:53:26AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 06:49:43PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: 1. i told you not to contact me again. This isn't evidence that John lied about anything. At best, it's evidence that he's not following your instructions. for

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-16 Thread Raul Miller
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 06:49:43PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: 1. i told you not to contact me again. On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 07:53:26AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: This isn't evidence that John lied about anything. At best, it's evidence that he's not following your instructions. On

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 11:27:37AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 07:53:26AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 06:49:43PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: 1. i told you not to contact me again. This isn't evidence that John lied about anything. At best,

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-16 Thread Raul Miller
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 09:02:43PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: Thank you for your efforts to lead by example. You're welcome. -- Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-16 Thread John Goerzen
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 11:27:37AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: Goerzen: : You yourself said that is what you would like to do. There is no need ^^^ : for me to make the accusation. This is Goerzen lying by claiming that i said i

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-16 Thread Raul Miller
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 11:27:37AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: This is Goerzen lying by claiming that i said i want to pollute main with non-free stuff. On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 11:41:59PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: You said you wanted things out of non-free. Um... he's posted the rest of

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-16 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 07:53:26AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 06:49:43PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: 1. i told you not to contact me again. This isn't evidence that John lied about anything. At best, it's evidence that he's not following your instructions. for

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-16 Thread Raul Miller
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 06:49:43PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: 1. i told you not to contact me again. On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 07:53:26AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: This isn't evidence that John lied about anything. At best, it's evidence that he's not following your instructions. On

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 11:27:37AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 07:53:26AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 06:49:43PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: 1. i told you not to contact me again. This isn't evidence that John lied about anything. At best,

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-16 Thread Raul Miller
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 09:02:43PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: Thank you for your efforts to lead by example. You're welcome. -- Raul

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-16 Thread John Goerzen
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 11:27:37AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: Goerzen: : You yourself said that is what you would like to do. There is no need ^^^ : for me to make the accusation. This is Goerzen lying by claiming that i said i

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-15 Thread Raul Miller
I believe disagree rather significantly with some of John's philosophy, however... On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 01:26:01PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: so, you ARE a liar with an extremely short memory. Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 11:33:20 +1100 (in reply to:

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-15 Thread Raul Miller
I believe disagree rather significantly with some of John's philosophy, however... On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 01:26:01PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: so, you ARE a liar with an extremely short memory. Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 11:33:20 +1100 (in reply to:

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-14 Thread John Goerzen
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 12:08:09PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: no, i think the reason why he chose to round off is dishonest. this was obvious from what i wrote. No, the reason I chose to round off was because my terminal is 80 characters wide. -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-14 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 04:03:09PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: well, frankly, your use of percentages was a little dishonest to say the least, as it let you round-off many packages to '0'. I had no idea what the results would be before running the program, and did not alter it to adjust

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-14 Thread John Goerzen
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 09:09:04AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: in any case, you have shown yourself to be dishonest on numerous occasions in this long and tortuous argument. you have no care for truth, or honour - you will utter any lie in the name of your cause. Which is

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-14 Thread John Goerzen
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:26:59AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: Oh c'mon. Just because I made a mistake doesn't mean that I'm dishonest. After all, you are the one that said your package has 0 entries in popcon[1], then tried to change it to used[2] once I had shown you to be incorrect

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-14 Thread John Goerzen
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 12:08:09PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: no, i think the reason why he chose to round off is dishonest. this was obvious from what i wrote. No, the reason I chose to round off was because my terminal is 80 characters wide. -- John

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-14 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 04:03:09PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: well, frankly, your use of percentages was a little dishonest to say the least, as it let you round-off many packages to '0'. I had no idea what the results would be before running the program, and did not alter it to adjust

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-14 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 08:11:40PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 09:09:04AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: in any case, you have shown yourself to be dishonest on numerous occasions in this long and tortuous argument. you have no care for truth, or honour

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-13 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-01-12 01:08:09 + Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: no, i think the reason why he chose to round off is dishonest. this was obvious from what i wrote. Has he given that dishonest reason and I missed it, or are you claiming telepathic ability? please learn basic rules of

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-13 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-01-12 01:08:09 + Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: no, i think the reason why he chose to round off is dishonest. this was obvious from what i wrote. Has he given that dishonest reason and I missed it, or are you claiming telepathic ability? please learn basic rules of

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-12 Thread Raul Miller
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 10:18:06AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Not to mention the fact that the last video card to have free 3D support was the Radeon 8500/9000/9100/9200, and that we are pretty unlikely to get anything else in the near future. And both ATI and Nvidia don't provide anything else

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 08:24:41AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 10:18:06AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Not to mention the fact that the last video card to have free 3D support was the Radeon 8500/9000/9100/9200, and that we are pretty unlikely to get anything else in the

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-12 Thread Raul Miller
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 10:18:06AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Not to mention the fact that the last video card to have free 3D support was the Radeon 8500/9000/9100/9200, and that we are pretty unlikely to get anything else in the near future. And both ATI and Nvidia don't provide

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:26:29AM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: http://people.debian.org/~ballombe/popcon/ was meant to replace http://people.debian.org/~apenwarr/popcon/ Avery Pennarun's page (apenwarr) has been reportedly broken in the past. I'm unsure as to it's current accuracy, as

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 08:24:41AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 10:18:06AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Not to mention the fact that the last video card to have free 3D support was the Radeon 8500/9000/9100/9200, and that we are pretty unlikely to get anything else in the

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-12 Thread Raul Miller
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 10:18:06AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Not to mention the fact that the last video card to have free 3D support was the Radeon 8500/9000/9100/9200, and that we are pretty unlikely to get anything else in the near future. And both ATI and Nvidia don't provide

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 12:08:07AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Sven Luther wrote: But as you said, it doesn't really prove anything, only that the people using popularity contest don't really use these non-free packages much. What about all those who don't run popularity contest, or those

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-12 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
http://people.debian.org/~ballombe/popcon/ was meant to replace http://people.debian.org/~apenwarr/popcon/ Avery Pennarun's page (apenwarr) has been reportedly broken in the past. I'm unsure as to it's current accuracy, as it's linked to from http://popcon.alioth.debian.org/ I would guess that

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-12 Thread Raul Miller
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 10:18:06AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Not to mention the fact that the last video card to have free 3D support was the Radeon 8500/9000/9100/9200, and that we are pretty unlikely to get anything else in the near future. And both ATI and Nvidia don't provide anything else

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:26:29AM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: http://people.debian.org/~ballombe/popcon/ was meant to replace http://people.debian.org/~apenwarr/popcon/ Avery Pennarun's page (apenwarr) has been reportedly broken in the past. I'm unsure as to it's current accuracy, as

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-11 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 12:02:09PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: It is simply not possible to discuss people who are not honest and try every trick in the book to come out right, even if they are wrong, as you evidently are. Oh c'mon. Just because I made a mistake doesn't mean that I'm

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-11 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-01-12 00:26:59 + Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well, frankly, your use of percentages was a little dishonest to say the least, as it let you round-off many packages to '0'. If you think that rounding off is dishonest, you must be really fun when buying things that have

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-11 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 12:52:48AM +, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-01-12 00:26:59 + Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well, frankly, your use of percentages was a little dishonest to say the least, as it let you round-off many packages to '0'. If you think that rounding off is

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Sven Luther wrote: But as you said, it doesn't really prove anything, only that the people using popularity contest don't really use these non-free packages much. What about all those who don't run popularity contest, or those who are offline ? What about monitoring BTS traffic for those packages

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-11 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-01-12 00:26:59 + Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well, frankly, your use of percentages was a little dishonest to say the least, as it let you round-off many packages to '0'. If you think that rounding off is dishonest, you must be really fun when buying things that have

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-11 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 12:02:09PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: It is simply not possible to discuss people who are not honest and try every trick in the book to come out right, even if they are wrong, as you evidently are. Oh c'mon. Just because I made a mistake doesn't mean that I'm

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-10 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 07:35:44AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 12:10:57AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 06:53:17AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:02:43PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: It hasn't even done that; as I have had to

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-10 Thread John Goerzen
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 07:35:44AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 12:10:57AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 06:53:17AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:02:43PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: It hasn't even done that; as I have had to

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 12:02:09PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 07:35:44AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 12:10:57AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 06:53:17AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:02:43PM -0600,

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-10 Thread John Goerzen
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 06:53:17AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:02:43PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: It hasn't even done that; as I have had to use Java from third-party repositories at work for some time and have not noticed it being any lower quality that non-free

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-10 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 07:35:44AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 12:10:57AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 06:53:17AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:02:43PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: It hasn't even done that; as I have had to

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-10 Thread John Goerzen
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 07:35:44AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 12:10:57AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 06:53:17AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:02:43PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: It hasn't even done that; as I have had to

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 12:02:09PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 07:35:44AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 12:10:57AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 06:53:17AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:02:43PM -0600,

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 12:10:57AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 06:53:17AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:02:43PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: It hasn't even done that; as I have had to use Java from third-party repositories at work for some time

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 02:51:36PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 01:00:12PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: From the data, we can see that: * The 5 most popular packages in non-free are acroread (18% regular use), unrar (14%), j2re1.4 (11%), and rar (10%).

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 11:16:06AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: Here is the output: Package NameSection Vote Old Rcnt Unkn Totl xpdf-chinese-simplified non-free/text 00000 xpdf-chinese-traditionalnon-free/text 0

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 12:51:52PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: But as you said, it doesn't really prove anything, only that the people using popularity contest don't really use these non-free packages much. What about all those who don't run popularity contest, or those who are offline ? We'd

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread John Goerzen
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 11:59:03PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 11:16:06AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: Here is the output: Package NameSection Vote Old Rcnt Unkn Totl xpdf-chinese-simplified non-free/text 00

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Jan 8, 2004, at 15:51, John Goerzen wrote: I was actually surprised at the popularity of {un}rar. I rarely see RAR files used anywhere. As one of the many people with rar/unrar on my system, alt.binaries.multimedia.* uses it a lot. e.g. a.b.m.anime. And you have to have rar as well as

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:17:25PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 12:51:52PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: But as you said, it doesn't really prove anything, only that the people using popularity contest don't really use these non-free packages much. What about all those

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread John Goerzen
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 03:36:58PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:17:25PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: We'd need somebody good enough at statistics to measure the error popcon introduces. I don't think it's in the order of the S/N ratio, though. Yep, but the package i

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 03:36:58PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: We'd need somebody good enough at statistics to measure the error popcon introduces. I don't think it's in the order of the S/N ratio, though. Yep, but the package i maintain have 0 entries in popcon, while i know this is not the

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread John Goerzen
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 05:12:39PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: What package is that? ocaml-docs, ocaml-book-fr, ocaml-book-en, unicorn, unicorn-source. maybe i missed some, but at least some of those where in this category. From the raw popcon output: PackageVote

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-01-09 14:36:58 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep, but the package i maintain have 0 entries in popcon, while i know this is not the real case. This means infinite error ratio, no ? I'm not sure what you mean by error ratio. Can you explain? The error rate is the proportion

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 09:57:27AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 03:36:58PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:17:25PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: We'd need somebody good enough at statistics to measure the error popcon introduces. I don't think it's

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 10:17:50AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 05:12:39PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: What package is that? ocaml-docs, ocaml-book-fr, ocaml-book-en, unicorn, unicorn-source. maybe i missed some, but at least some of those where in this category.

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 04:40:40PM +, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-01-09 14:36:58 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep, but the package i maintain have 0 entries in popcon, while i know this is not the real case. This means infinite error ratio, no ? I'm not sure what you mean by

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread John Goerzen
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 05:35:42PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 10:17:50AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: Taken from the data you quoted : PackageVote Old Rcnt Unknown ocaml-book-en 0 0 019 ocaml-book-en

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread John Goerzen
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 05:44:34PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 04:40:40PM +, MJ Ray wrote: Well, the error ratio is something like the correctly correctly classified examples divided by the wrong ones or soemthing such. I know my packages are used, let's say by 5

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 12:25:21PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 12:51:52PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: So, we have a situation where the #1 and #3 packages installed from non-free on people's systems are not actually present in Debian's non-free (any more). Also,

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 11:17:01AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 05:44:34PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 04:40:40PM +, MJ Ray wrote: Well, the error ratio is something like the correctly correctly classified examples divided by the wrong ones or

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread John Goerzen
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 07:33:56PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Also, installing java stuff from third party sources is a pain. See for example the problem with mozilla-cvs and mozilla-snapshot, which you have to hand fix in the postinst. Also, there is no 1.4 .deb for powerpc for

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread Kenshi Muto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At Fri, 9 Jan 2004 09:10:42 -0600, John Goerzen wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 11:59:03PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 11:16:06AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: Here is the output: Package Name

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread John Goerzen
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 06:53:17AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:02:43PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: It hasn't even done that; as I have had to use Java from third-party repositories at work for some time and have not noticed it being any lower quality that non-free

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:02:43PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 07:33:56PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Also, installing java stuff from third party sources is a pain. See for example the problem with mozilla-cvs and mozilla-snapshot, which you have to hand fix in

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 12:10:57AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 06:53:17AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:02:43PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: It hasn't even done that; as I have had to use Java from third-party repositories at work for some time

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 02:51:36PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 01:00:12PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: From the data, we can see that: * The 5 most popular packages in non-free are acroread (18% regular use), unrar (14%), j2re1.4 (11%), and rar (10%).

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 11:16:06AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: Here is the output: Package NameSection Vote Old Rcnt Unkn Totl xpdf-chinese-simplified non-free/text 00000 xpdf-chinese-traditionalnon-free/text 0

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 12:51:52PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: But as you said, it doesn't really prove anything, only that the people using popularity contest don't really use these non-free packages much. What about all those who don't run popularity contest, or those who are offline ? We'd

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Jan 8, 2004, at 15:51, John Goerzen wrote: I was actually surprised at the popularity of {un}rar. I rarely see RAR files used anywhere. As one of the many people with rar/unrar on my system, alt.binaries.multimedia.* uses it a lot. e.g. a.b.m.anime. And you have to have rar as well

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread John Goerzen
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 03:36:58PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:17:25PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: We'd need somebody good enough at statistics to measure the error popcon introduces. I don't think it's in the order of the S/N ratio, though. Yep, but the package i

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:17:25PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 12:51:52PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: But as you said, it doesn't really prove anything, only that the people using popularity contest don't really use these non-free packages much. What about all those

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread John Goerzen
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 11:59:03PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 11:16:06AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: Here is the output: Package NameSection Vote Old Rcnt Unkn Totl xpdf-chinese-simplified non-free/text 00

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-01-09 14:36:58 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep, but the package i maintain have 0 entries in popcon, while i know this is not the real case. This means infinite error ratio, no ? I'm not sure what you mean by error ratio. Can you explain? The error rate is the

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 03:36:58PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: We'd need somebody good enough at statistics to measure the error popcon introduces. I don't think it's in the order of the S/N ratio, though. Yep, but the package i maintain have 0 entries in popcon, while i know this is not the

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 04:40:40PM +, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-01-09 14:36:58 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep, but the package i maintain have 0 entries in popcon, while i know this is not the real case. This means infinite error ratio, no ? I'm not sure what you mean by

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-01-09 16:44:34 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The error rate is the proportion misclassified, which cannot be infinite under any circumstances where there are some subjects. I'm also not sure how it applies here. Ah, yes, that is the stuff taken in the other direction,

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread John Goerzen
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 05:12:39PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: What package is that? ocaml-docs, ocaml-book-fr, ocaml-book-en, unicorn, unicorn-source. maybe i missed some, but at least some of those where in this category. From the raw popcon output: PackageVote

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread John Goerzen
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 05:35:42PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 10:17:50AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: Taken from the data you quoted : PackageVote Old Rcnt Unknown ocaml-book-en 0 0 019 ocaml-book-en

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 12:25:21PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 12:51:52PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: So, we have a situation where the #1 and #3 packages installed from non-free on people's systems are not actually present in Debian's non-free (any more). Also,

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 12:51:52PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: So, we have a situation where the #1 and #3 packages installed from non-free on people's systems are not actually present in Debian's non-free (any more). Also, no version of Java later than 1.1 is present. yep, but these are

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 11:17:01AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 05:44:34PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 04:40:40PM +, MJ Ray wrote: Well, the error ratio is something like the correctly correctly classified examples divided by the wrong ones or

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 09:57:27AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 03:36:58PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:17:25PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: We'd need somebody good enough at statistics to measure the error popcon introduces. I don't think it's

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 10:17:50AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 05:12:39PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: What package is that? ocaml-docs, ocaml-book-fr, ocaml-book-en, unicorn, unicorn-source. maybe i missed some, but at least some of those where in this category.

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread John Goerzen
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 05:44:34PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 04:40:40PM +, MJ Ray wrote: Well, the error ratio is something like the correctly correctly classified examples divided by the wrong ones or soemthing such. I know my packages are used, let's say by 5

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread Kenshi Muto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At Fri, 9 Jan 2004 09:10:42 -0600, John Goerzen wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 11:59:03PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 11:16:06AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: Here is the output: Package Name

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-09 Thread John Goerzen
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 07:33:56PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Also, installing java stuff from third party sources is a pain. See for example the problem with mozilla-cvs and mozilla-snapshot, which you have to hand fix in the postinst. Also, there is no 1.4 .deb for powerpc for

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 11:16:06AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: I thought it interesting to find out just how much non-free is used. I wrote up a quick Python script that analyzes the latest popularity-contest results. Any cavets that apply to popcon results will, of course, apply this this

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-08 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello John, Fo a special Project I need to create new Debian-CD's but 'Console Only'. For this I need to know, in which sequenz I must put the packages onto the CD's... Is the result of the 'popularity-contest' publich ? If yes, where can I get it ? In general I need only 'main', 'contrib'

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-08 Thread John Goerzen
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 07:51:36PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: Is the result of the 'popularity-contest' publich ? If yes, where can I get it ? In general I need only 'main', 'contrib' and 'non-US' Yes, the full raw data is available http://people.debian.org/~apenwarr//popcon/ -- John

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-08 Thread John Goerzen
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 01:00:12PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: From the data, we can see that: * The 5 most popular packages in non-free are acroread (18% regular use), unrar (14%), j2re1.4 (11%), and rar (10%). acroread is no longer distributable (or distributed), so should

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-08 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 02:51:36PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: I was actually surprised at the popularity of {un}rar. I rarely see RAR files used anywhere. I believe they still in wide use as transport for games with, uhm, removed copy protection. At least one of my former flatmates had loads

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-08 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 02:51:36PM -0600, John Goerzen écrivait: I was actually surprised at the popularity of {un}rar. I rarely see RAR files used anywhere. It's commonly used to distribute DivX or other big multimediua files through NTTP (alt.binaries.*). Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+-

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-08 Thread Tore Anderson
* Steve Langasek Of course, tar and unzip are no substitute for unrar. * John Goerzen It, of course, depends on what you're doing, but yes, I realize that. I just tried to show a smattering of similar programs so people can compare. I was actually surprised at the popularity of

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-08 Thread Dale E Martin
Also, are any of the java packages actually distributed by Debian? I thought there were legal issues that prevented even non-free distribution (though j2re/sdk packages are available elsewhere). Excellent points. No, acroread is not in non-free. j2re1.4 also is not, nor is j2dsk1.4

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