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Re: Discussion - non-free software removal



On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 05:36:45AM -0500, Susan Kleinmann wrote:
> Also, taking your suggestion that one should consider source packages
> instead of binary packages, I suspect that package-splitting has become 
> a lot more common than it was in the days of slink, so a more detailed 
> analysis [...]

By source then:

         main  contrib  non-free  %main  %contrib  %non-free
bo        692     22       69      88.4     2.8       8.8
hamm     1115     78      183      81.0     5.7      13.3
slink    1580     77      225      84.0     4.1      12.0
potato   2647     97      220      89.3     3.3       7.4
woody    5231    159      208      93.4     2.8       3.7
--------
sarge    6089    191      221      93.7     2.9       3.4
sid      6466    219      233      93.5     3.2       3.4


> I tried using a simple algorithm to count the number of source packages,
> but the true picture looks like it's sufficiently complex that some
> hand-work is needed.

It probably is, but the true picture for main will almost certainly be
more complicated in similar ways, so it's probably not overly important
as far as gathering statistics goes.

Cheers,
aj

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