On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 05:43:17PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Mon, 16 May 2016 08:42:18 -0300, Joao Eriberto Mota Filho wrote: > > > Please, add last-upload and Standards-Version columns. These columns will > > provide an easiest mode to find and help very old packages, discover > > visually > > MIA maintainers, predict future problems, etc. > > I have no opinion if those fields should be added but I don't agree > with your concluison above. > > In my experience it's correct that un(der)-maintained packages > usually have old Standars-Versions or debhelper compatibility levels > etc. But the opposite is not necessarily true: They are not a reason > to upload an otherwise fine package in themselves, so there are > enough packages without bug reports or new upstream releases which > haven't been touched in a while. > > Just because I was curious myself: Here are the numbers for the > pkg-perl packages (from git): > > 1532 Standards-Version: 3.9.6 > 503 Standards-Version: 3.9.5 > 271 Standards-Version: 3.9.4 > 227 Standards-Version: 3.9.7 > 161 Standards-Version: 3.9.8 > 148 Standards-Version: 3.9.2 > 92 Standards-Version: 3.9.1 > 86 Standards-Version: 3.9.3 > 50 Standards-Version: 3.8.3 > 39 Standards-Version: 3.8.4 > 31 Standards-Version: 3.8.2 > 30 Standards-Version: 3.8.0 > 27 Standards-Version: 3.7.3 > 15 Standards-Version: 3.8.1 > 3 Standards-Version: 3.9.0
Just because I can, here are the numbers for the whole unstable: $ grep-dctrl -s Standards-Version '' /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.br.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_source_Sources | sort | uniq -c | sort -n 1 Standards-Version: 3.0.0 1 Standards-Version: 3.1.0 1 Standards-Version: 3.5.0 1 Standards-Version: 3.5.1 1 Standards-Version: 3.5.1.0 1 Standards-Version: 3.5.2.0 1 Standards-Version: 3.5.5.0 1 Standards-Version: 3.7.1.2 1 Standards-Version: 3.9.5.1 1 Standards-Version: 3.9.6h 1 Standards-Version: 5 2 Standards-Version: 3.0.1 2 Standards-Version: 3.2.1.0 2 Standards-Version: 3.5.10 2 Standards-Version: 3.5.6.1 2 Standards-Version: 3.5.8.0 2 Standards-Version: 3.5.9 2 Standards-Version: 3.6.0.1 3 Standards-Version: 3.2.1 3 Standards-Version: 3.6.2.2 3 Standards-Version: 3.9.0.0 4 Standards-Version: 3.1.1 4 Standards-Version: 3.5.6.0 4 Standards-Version: 3.6.1.1 4 Standards-Version: 3.7.0 4 Standards-Version: 3.7.2.1 6 Standards-Version: 3.6.0 6 Standards-Version: 3.6.2.1 6 Standards-Version: 3.9.8.0 7 Standards-Version: 3.5.6 7 Standards-Version: 3.5.7 7 Standards-Version: 3.8.0.0 8 Standards-Version: 3.8.1.0 8 Standards-Version: 3.8.4.0 9 Standards-Version: 3.7.2.0 10 Standards-Version: 3.5.8 11 Standards-Version: 3.6.2.0 11 Standards-Version: 3.8.0.1 12 Standards-Version: 3.6.1.0 12 Standards-Version: 3.7.3.0 13 Standards-Version: 3.9.7.0 14 Standards-Version: 3.8.2.0 15 Standards-Version: 3.9.3.0 17 Standards-Version: 3.8.3.0 18 Standards-Version: 3.9.4.0 19 Standards-Version: 3.5.2 19 Standards-Version: 3.7.2.2 19 Standards-Version: 3.9.1.0 29 Standards-Version: 3.9.2.0 41 Standards-Version: 3.9.6.0 42 Standards-Version: 3.9.5.0 45 Standards-Version: 3.9.0 46 Standards-Version: 3.9.3.1 49 Standards-Version: 3.9.6.1 51 Standards-Version: 3.6.1 76 Standards-Version: 3.6.2 110 Standards-Version: 3.8.2 130 Standards-Version: 3.8.1 224 Standards-Version: 3.7.3 252 Standards-Version: 3.8.0 272 Standards-Version: 3.7.2 357 Standards-Version: 3.8.4 368 Standards-Version: 3.8.3 486 Standards-Version: 3.9.1 1136 Standards-Version: 3.9.2 1151 Standards-Version: 3.9.3 1731 Standards-Version: 3.9.4 1778 Standards-Version: 3.9.8 3039 Standards-Version: 3.9.7 3124 Standards-Version: 3.9.5 10121 Standards-Version: 3.9.6
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