Re: Answers to "Why is package X not in testing yet?"

[Björn Stenberg <bjorn@haxx.se>]

Björn Stenberg wrote:
> As a trivia item, the script also outputs a top list of which packages the
> greatest number of other packages depend on.

I've now also added an age toplist:

555 days: ttthreeparser (1 waiting, Not considered, waits for antlr, kaffe)
526 days: gnome-doc-tools (1 waiting, Not considered, has RC bugs)
493 days: gltron (1 waiting, Not considered, has RC bugs)
363 days: fsviewer-icons (1 waiting, Not considered, waits for fsviewer)
336 days: bugsquish (1 waiting, Not considered, )
316 days: werken.xpath (1 waiting, Not considered, waits for antlr)
289 days: ruby-beta (1 waiting, Not considered, has RC bugs)
275 days: libpcap (58 waiting, Valid candidate, breaks 66 pkgs)

http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/oldest.html


And a toplist of "points" ($age * $numwaiting), that could perhaps be seen as
a rough indicator of where more help is needed:

15950 points: libpcap (58 waiting, 275 days old, breaks 66 pkgs)
14000 points: perl (175 waiting, 80 days old, has RC bugs)
7820 points: phpgroupware-phpgroupware (46 waiting, 170 days old, has RC bugs)
6960 points: fam (58 waiting, 120 days old, ACCEPTED)
6840 points: qt-x11-free (114 waiting, 60 days old, has RC bugs)
6440 points: python2.2 (140 waiting, 46 days old, breaks 42 pkgs)
6138 points: libbonoboui (99 waiting, 62 days old, waits for libgnome, gnome-vfs2)
5400 points: gnome-vfs2 (108 waiting, 50 days old, ACCEPTED)

http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/points.html

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Björn