On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 09:04:32PM +0200, Hartmut Koptein wrote:
> > Why better QM?
> 1 year cycle: 1000 or all packages must be checked
> 3-4 months : 100 (+/-) must be checked
One year is three or four, 4/3 month cycles, which makes 300/400 packages
changed, not 1000, unless part of your thesis is that this'll slow down
Debian's development by a factor of two or three.
Further, this just doesn't hold up. Some packages change frequently,
and others don't, so of the "100" that change in one three month cycle,
a good proportion of those will be the ones that change in the next three
month cycle too. So rather than 100+100+100(+100) you're more likely to
end up with something like 100+70+60(+50) (230/280) or something similar.
Further, in the four month period since the start of the freeze, we're
really talking about 721 source level differences in main between potato
and woody, of which 527 seem to be new upstream versions. And this is
even during a freeze. [0]
Oh, random food for thought:
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/who/rob/utah2000.ps
Cheers,
aj
[0] zcat potato/main/source/Sources.gz |
awk '/^Package: / {P = $2}
/^Version: / {if (P != "") print P, $2; P = ""}' |
sort >potato.srcver
zcat woody/main/source/Sources.gz |
awk '/^Package: / {P = $2}
/^Version: / {if (P != "") print P, $2; P = ""}' |
sort >woody.srcver
diff potato.srcver woody.srcver | grep '^>' | wc
# 721 2163 14196
zcat woody/main/source/Sources.gz |
awk '/^Package: / {P = $2}
/^Version: / {if (P != "") print P, $2; P = ""}' |
sed 's/-[^- ]*$//' |
sort >woody.srcver
zcat potato/main/source/Sources.gz |
awk '/^Package: / {P = $2}
/^Version: / {if (P != "") print P, $2; P = ""}' |
sed 's/-[^- ]*$//' |
sort >potato.srcver
diff potato.srcver woody.srcver | grep '^>' | wc
# 527 1581 9305
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