On 4/13/19 10:20 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > TL;DR: see https://trends.debian.net and > https://trends.debian.net/#smells > > Hi, > > Following this blog post[1] I did some work on setting up a proper > framework to graph historical trends about Debian packaging practices. > The result is now available at [2], and I'm confident that I will be > able to update this on a regular basis (every few months). > > Additionally (and much more controversially I guess :-) ) I also added > an analysis of "package smells"[3], such as "not using dh", "not using a > recent debhelper compat level", "not using a 3.0 source format", etc. I > understand that in some cases there might be good reasons to keep those > "smells", but I find it valuable to have them presented in a more > actionable way to fix the cases that should be fixed. So there's a list > of smells, sorted by maintainer/uploader [4]. > > Given that Debian is currently frozen to prepare the buster release, > this is a bad time to start fixing those smells, but I will send a > reminder to debian-devel@ once buster is released. (It's interesting to > see how the number of smells plateaued during previous freezes). > > - Lucas > > [1] https://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=945 > [2] https://trends.debian.net/ > [3] https://trends.debian.net/#smells > [4] https://trends.debian.net/smells-dd-list.txt
I'm not sure if I should say thanks, or just hide myself behind the wall, considering how much work there would be to fix all of these packages that I need to fix... :/ Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)
