popbugs(1) [netbsd man page]

popbugs(1)							  debian-goodies							popbugs(1)

NAME

       popbugs - find RC bugs in packages you commonly use

SYNOPSIS

       popbugs [options] [popularity-contest log]

DESCRIPTION

       The  popbugs  program fetches the list of release critical bugs from the Debian bug tracking system on the internet.  It correlates the bug
       log with the popularity-contest data from your system to obtain a list of release critical bugs in packages, which  are	commonly  used	on
       your  system.   Normally  this  list  is displayed in a web browser.  Helping to resolve these bugs is a good idea, if you want to see your
       favourite programs in the next stable release of Debian.

OPTIONS

       -h

       --help Show a very short usage message.

       -ooutputfile

       --output=outputfile
	      Place the output in outputfile instead of displaying it in a browser.

       -d

       --debug
	      Output debugging information.

SEE ALSO

       rc-alert(1), popularity-contest(8)

AUTHOR

       The popbugs program is copyright (C)  2001  Matt  Zimmerman  <mdz@debian.org>.	This  manual  page  is	copyright  (C)	2004   Jochen  VoB
       <voss@debian.org>.

debian-goodies							  January 10 2004							popbugs(1)

POPULARITY-CONTEST(8)													     POPULARITY-CONTEST(8)

NAME

       popularity-contest - list the most popular Debian packages

SYNOPSIS

       popularity-contest

DESCRIPTION

       The  popularity-contest command gathers information about Debian packages installed on the system, and prints the name of the most recently
       used executable program in that package as well as its last-accessed time (atime) and last-attribute-changed time (ctime) to stdout.

       When aggregated with the output of popularity-contest from many other systems, this information is valuable  because  it  can  be  used	to
       determine  which  Debian  packages are commonly installed, used, or installed and never used.  This helps Debian maintainers make decisions
       such as	which packages should be installed by default on new systems.

       The resulting statistic is available from the project home page http://popcon.debian.org/.

       Normally, popularity-contest is run from a cron(8) job, /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest, which  automatically  submits  the  results	to
       Debian  package	maintainers  (only  once  a week) according to the settings in /etc/popularity-contest.conf and /usr/share/popularity-con-
       test/default.conf.

SEE ALSO

       The popularity-contest FAQ at /usr/share/doc/popularity-contest/FAQ popcon-largest-unused(8), cron(8)

       Additional documentation is in /usr/share/doc/popularity-contest/.

AUTHOR

       Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@debian.org>.

Debian/GNU Linux						   November 2001					     POPULARITY-CONTEST(8)