A new metric for source package importance in ports

2013-11-27 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, the following is a report of a successful implementation of what I have been talking about with Niels Thykier during debconf13. The question was how important it is for a source package to be compilable or exist in the first place given an incomplete port which is in the process of being

Re: A new metric for source package importance in ports

2013-11-27 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi josch! On 27/11/13 17:58, Johannes Schauer wrote: http://mister-muffin.de/p/Gid8.txt One can see that now the amount of source packages which is needed to build the rest of the archive is only 383. So, there are 383 packages that share the same, maximum value (in this case 11657) in

Re: A new metric for source package importance in ports

2013-11-27 Thread peter green
Johannes Schauer wrote: Hi, the following is a report of a successful implementation of what I have been talking about with Niels Thykier during debconf13. The question was how important it is for a source package to be compilable or exist in the first place given an incomplete port which is in

Re: A new metric for source package importance in ports

2013-11-27 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 28 November 2013 00:04, Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org wrote: Hi josch! On 27/11/13 17:58, Johannes Schauer wrote: http://mister-muffin.de/p/Gid8.txt One can see that now the amount of source packages which is needed to build the rest of the archive is only 383. So, there are

Re: A new metric for source package importance in ports

2013-11-27 Thread Leslie S Satenstein
Instead of dwelling on this discovery, which is not productive, why not concentrate on what to do to improve Debian. The analysis has shown faults. Has Debian stopped working?  Has the world crashed?  The problems have been identified, the patches to address the issues are being evaluated

Re: A new metric for source package importance in ports

2013-11-27 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting peter green (2013-11-28 01:12:57) One problem with these metrics is that you get source packages whose importance is artifically inflated because of the way our source packages work. If anything in a source package needs x then the whole source package has to build-depend on x.