Re: A new metric for source package importance in ports

2013-11-28 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
peter green wrote: 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 incom

Re: A new metric for source package importance in ports

2013-11-28 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Dmitrijs Ledkovs (2013-11-28 01:15:06) > On 28 November 2013 00:04, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > > I also find it interesting to see openjdk-7 listed but not gcj; or even > > gcc-4.8. Was this computed for jessie or sid? > > I guess implicit relationships are not considered: build-e

Re: A new metric for source package importance in ports

2013-11-28 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Steven Chamberlain (2013-11-28 01:04:56) > 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 package

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.

Re: A new metric for source package importance in ports

2013-11-27 Thread Leslie S Satenstein
>; debian-po...@lists.debian.org >Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 7:15 PM >Subject: Re: A new metric for source package importance in ports > > >On 28 November 2013 00:04, Steven Chamberlain wrote: >> Hi josch! >> >> On 27/11/13 17:58, Johannes Schauer wrote: >>> ht

Re: A new metric for source package importance in ports

2013-11-27 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 28 November 2013 00:04, Steven Chamberlain 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 383

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 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) i