how can it be more popular then popcon?

[James Westby]

On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 10:54 +0200, Viktor Nagy wrote:
> Hi!  
> 
> this is an excerpt from the actual popcon dataset sorted by vote
> 
> 1     perl-base                     150701
> 2     debianutils                   150375
> ...
> 10    popularity-contest        145894
> 
> this means that popularity-contest was touched/used by 145 894
> installations, so they were the ones who have sent a report, as this
> means that the file was touched. But then how can there be more
> touches on some other packages?
> 

Please see this thread for a variety of possible reasons for this:

  http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00566.html


Thanks,

James