On 7/6/20 8:04 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > > On 04/07/20 at 13:24 +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I just skimmed through https://trends.debian.net/ and am impressed. Many >> thanks for these figures. > > Thanks > >> Do you accept wishes for additional graphs? > > Sure > >> Mine would be on the number of build dependencies as a scale for >> software complexity and how this evolved over time. My hunch is that >> later software has more dependencies than earlier ones. Would of course >> be cool to also have other software metrics over time. Anyway - >> fanstastic plots already! > > I use lintian as the source of data. So basically you need to get the > information you want in a lintian classification tag, and then I take > care of adding the graphs :) > > For your above example, do you mean "direct build-deps listed in > debian/control", or "transitive build-deps" ? The latter would require a > lot more analysis.
is the complexity really defined by the number of build deps? What about the height of the build stack for a package? Like determining the dependency levels in ben, but that for every package. Matthias