Popularity Contest is used to collect information on packages
installed by users. However, there is currently a need to determine
whether a particular architecture should be supported, but
popularity-contest does not collect the information. See [1] and [2].

I think it would be useful to have popularity-contest collect
information on the underlying hardware to guide arch decisions.

[1] "Removing dpkg arch definitions for powerpcspe?" (Sept 2025),
<https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2025/09/msg00021.html>
[2] "Let's start a survey on our userbase" (Sept 2025),
<https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2025/09/msg00124.html>

popularity-contest purpose is to collect packages usage, not hardware usage.
However some hardware usage can be inferred from software usage, by looking at
hardware specific packages, like kernels and formware packages.

See bug #238687.

Cheers,

Thank you sir!

Independently of popularity-contest, the difficulty is
-- to define what informations are collected and how.
-- to define how the informations are exploited.
Then we can see how to proceed.
However a popularity-contest-like survey will not be useful when targetting
very small set of users.

For powerpcpse I can offer this graph:
https://popcon.debian.org/stat/sub-powerpcspe.png
which show zero submissions since approximately 2020.

Cheers,