Re: The future of Linux32 builds and tests

On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 12:21:26PM -0400, William Lachance wrote:
> On 15-10-08 09:40 PM, Mike Hommey wrote:
> >Debian is likely not very indicative of the overall Linux world. Taking
> >the primarily available figures from Debian and Ubuntu give completely
> >opposite pictures:
> >debian: i386: 51859, amd64: 132362
> >ubuntu: i386: 2065695, amd64: 673565
> >
> >(from popcon.ubuntu.com and popcon.debian.org)
> 
> Are those Ubuntu numbers for installations in general, or Firefox
> specifically? I couldn't find out how to get architecture specific
> information from popcon, and I'm worried that the overall results include
> server installations (which would really skew them):
> 
> http://popcon.ubuntu.com/main/index.html

For both Debian and Ubuntu, you can't get per-package architecture
split, but you can start from this, from the Ubuntu data:
- the total number of submissions is 2747796
- the sum of i386 + amd64 is 2739260, which leaves us with 8536
  submissions from other architectures.
- the number of submissions with Firefox is 2503536.

Even if 100% of the amd64 and other non-i386 architectures
submissions were with Firefox, that still would leave 1821435 i386
submissions with Firefox, which is still a whole lot more than the
amd64 ones.

Mike