How do I know which ones I do not use - which is what popcon-largest-unused is supposed to do?
Yes, and it does,
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popcon-largest-unused(8) popcon-largest-unused(8)
NAME
popcon-largest-unused - List size of unused packages
SYNTAX
popcon-largest-unused
DESCRIPTION
Based on the list of unused packages reported by popularity-contest,
this program extract the package size from the APT cache, and list the
unused packages sorted by size.
FILES
/var/log/popularity-contest
AUTHORS
Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>
SEE ALSO
popularity-contest(8)
Yann Dirson popcon-largest-unused(8)
Of course if you don't have any packages that you do not use, it would not return anything. I have chores to do, and now I am not sure what it is you expect, again I will repeat my suggestion, if you have questions about the popularity-contest package, the ones that could answer them best are the developers and maintainers.
Yes it is just a perl script, and a pretty basic one, but I don't see where that is relevant.