neurodebian-popularity-contest

neuroscience-oriented distribution - popcon integration


The NeuroDebian project integrates and maintains a variety of software projects within Debian that are useful for neuroscience (such as AFNI, FSL, PsychoPy, etc.) or generic computation (such as HTCondor, pandas, etc.).

This package is a complement to the generic popularity-contest package to enable anonymous submission of usage statistics to NeuroDebian in addition to the popcon submissions to the underlying distribution (either Debian or Ubuntu) popcon server.

Participating in popcon is important for the following reasons:

  • Popular packages receive more attention from developers; bugs are fixed faster and updates are provided quicker.
  • It ensures that support is not dropped for a previous release of Debian or Ubuntu while there are active users.
  • User statistics may be useful for upstream research software developers seeking funding for continued development.

This requires that popcon is activated for the underlying distribution (Debian or Ubuntu), which can be achieved by running “dpkg-reconfigure popularity-contest” as root.

Related packages: neurodebian, neurodebian-archive-keyring, neurodebian-desktop, neurodebian-dev


Maintainer information

This software package is maintained for (Neuro)Debian by the follow individuals and/or groups:

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NeuroDebian Maintainers
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Michael Hanke
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Yaroslav Halchenko

In order to get support, or to get in touch with a maintainer, please click the ‘Help’ button at the top of the page.

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Package availability chart
Distribution Base version Our version Architectures
Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 (squeeze)   0.37.1~nd60+1 i386, amd64, sparc
Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 (wheezy)   0.36~nd70+1 i386, amd64, sparc
Debian GNU/Linux 8.0 (jessie)   0.36~nd80+1 i386, amd64, sparc
Debian testing (stretch) 0.37.2 0.37.1~nd90+1 i386, amd64, sparc
Debian unstable (sid) 0.37.2 0.37.1~nd+1 i386, amd64, sparc
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS “Lucid Lynx” (lucid)   0.34~nd10.04+1 i386, amd64, sparc
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS “Precise Pangolin” (precise)   0.37.1~nd12.04+1 i386, amd64, sparc
Ubuntu 14.04 “Trusty Tahr” (trusty)   0.37.1~nd14.04+1 i386, amd64, sparc
Ubuntu 14.10 “Utopic Unicorn” (utopic)   0.37.1~nd14.10+1 i386, amd64, sparc
Ubuntu 15.04 “Vivid Vervet” (vivid)   0.37.1~nd15.04+1 i386, amd64, sparc
The source code for this portal is licensed under the GPL-3 and is available on GitHub.