[Mono-list] ubuntu packaging

[Daniel Isenmann]

Am 04.03.2010 11:40, schrieb Daniel Hughes:
> Recently banshee turned on opt in statistic gathering, the first set
> of results are in, and it turns out that the overwhelming majority of
> Banshee users run it on Ubuntu. This possibly unexpected result is
> causing the banshee team to rethink their strategy regarding
> deployment to Ubuntu. Including the importance of providing same days
> packaging for ubuntu.
>
> Banshee/BuildVendor:
>     Users:                   519
>     292  : Ubuntu 9.10
>     51   : Ubuntu 9.10 c519a80
>     33   : source-tarball
>     25   : Banshee / openSUSE_11.2
>     22   : git-checkout
>     20   : banshee-project.org OSX 10.5+ i386/Intel
>     16   : Gentoo/banshee/1.5.4
>     14   : Ubuntu lucid (development branch) c519a80
>     7    : Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid)
>     6    : Ubuntu 9.10 8fef2fb
>     4    : Foresight Linux
>     4    : Ubuntu 9.04
>     4    : Ubuntu 9.10 0328ab7
>     4    : Ubuntu 9.10 ffc9f0f
>     3    : Ubuntu 9.10 424a345
>     3    : Ubuntu 9.10 d885c99
>     2    : ArchLinux
>     2    : Banshee:Alpha / openSUSE_11.2
>     2    : Ubuntu lucid (development branch) 8fef2fb
>     1    : Fedora12-1.5.4-0.1.fc12.aa
>     1    : Fedora12-1.5.4-1.fc12
>     1    : Fedora13-1.5.4-1.fc13
>     1    : Fedora14-1.5.4-1.fc14
>
> This is only a small sample size, and does not necessarily correlate
> to what operating systems mono is used on. However if it did would
> that cause the mono project to reconsider its decision to not provide
> packaging for Ubuntu?
>
> I know the reasons why mono does not provide ubuntu packaging have
> been discussed on this mailing list in the past. However would it make
> a differences if it turned out that most mono users ran ubuntu?
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Hi,
I think such numbers aren't much representative because most users 
doesn't send usage statistic. Regarding to our own stats generated from 
responses of 2034 users so far (the response is voluntary):

31,61% (642 users) have installed mono and
2,51% (51 users) have installed banshee

So you see that your number (2) is much different to ours (51). I know 
that this only represent that they have installed the package and it 
doesn't mean that all the people use it. But why should someone install 
a package if he doesn't use it. Furthermore the banshee package isn't 
required by any other package as dependency, so it was explicit 
installed by the user.

You can find the complete stats on the german website of Arch Linux: 
https://www.archlinux.de/?page=PackageStatistics

Cheers,
Daniel (mono maintainer of Arch Linux)