Comment 9 for bug 57052

Here's what http://popcon.ubuntu.com/by_vote says:

#Format
#
#<name> is the package name;
#<inst> is the number of people who installed this package;
#<vote> is the number of people who use this package regularly;
#<old> is the number of people who installed, but don't use this package
# regularly;
#<recent> is the number of people who upgraded this package recently;
#<no-files> is the number of people whose entry didn't contain enough
# information (atime and ctime were 0).
#rank name inst vote old recent no-files (maintainer)
1 perl-base 452401 134486 303218 14682 15 (Brendan O'dea)
2 debianutils 452415 134414 302214 15779 8 (Clint Adams)
3 grep 452411 134405 304925 13026 55 (Ryan M. Golbeck)
 :
 :
6890 toshutils 896 62 791 43 0 (Drew Parsons)

(Sorry for the screwy formatting.)

I don't understand how the rank is calculated, but it's in the top decile (-: -- the full list has 75594 entries. (Ah, it's simply by vote, apparently. A lot of packages have one or zero votes.)

Judging from the comments in Ubuntuforums, a lot of people installed this only to find out it doesn't work for their BIOS (or many are still puzzling about what it's supposed to do for them). I guess the vote might be inflated somewhat if it has an init script which gets run at every boot, even if it only finds that it can't do anything, and quits. (I don't know if it does, but IIRC it contains a small daemon of some sort.)