Source: popularity-contest Section: misc Priority: optional Maintainer: Popularity Contest Developers Uploaders: Bill Allombert Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12) Homepage: https://popcon.debian.org/ Standards-Version: 4.5.0 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/popularity-contest-team/popularity-contest Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/popularity-contest-team/popularity-contest.git Package: popularity-contest Architecture: all Pre-Depends: debconf (>= 1.5.34) | cdebconf (>= 0.106) Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, dpkg (>= 1.10) Recommends: gpg, cron | cron-daemon, default-mta | mail-transport-agent Suggests: anacron, tor, torsocks Provides: popcon Description: Vote for your favourite packages automatically The popularity-contest package sets up a cron job that will periodically anonymously submit to the Debian developers statistics about the most used Debian packages on this system. . This information helps Debian make decisions such as which packages should go on the first CD. It also lets Debian improve future versions of the distribution so that the most popular packages are the ones which are installed automatically for new users.