On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:07:38PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Anthony" == Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes: > Anthony> By my count, excluding non-US packages, the numbers look like this: > Anthony> total main contrib non-free %main %contrib %non-free > Anthony> bo 1188 980 31 115 82.5 2.6 9.7 > Anthony> hamm 1852 1524 101 227 82.3 5.5 12.3 > Anthony> slink 2664 2269 97 298 85.2 3.6 11.2 > Anthony> potato 4305 3889 123 293 90.3 2.9 6.8 > Anthony> woody 8766 8291 203 272 94.6 2.3 3.1 > Anthony> --------------------------------------------------------------- > Anthony> sarge 10283 9734 257 292 94.7 2.5 2.8 > Anthony> sid 11168 10555 306 307 94.5 2.7 2.7 > Hmm. I think this is kinda compelling argument for let it > wither on its own school of thought. I think it would be a more compelling argument if the number of non-free packages was decreasing *absolutely*, and not just relatively. It's not possible to tell from these numbers that this has really happened; the only thing that can be said with certainty is that there are currently more non-free packages in unstable than we have ever had in a stable release, which at least points to the possibility of an increase. Setting aside for the moment the idea of weeding out everything that's currently there; do we really want to allow *new* non-free packages to be uploaded to the archive? Perhaps a closer look at any non-free packages that have been added since potato's release is warranted. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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