Re: Finding an improved release process.
Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> writes:
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 01:25:49PM +0100, Cesar Martinez Izquierdo wrote:
>> El Domingo 28 Noviembre 2004 02:17, Adam Heath escribi?:
>> > You should also look at the size of each release. They all have more and
>> > more packages.
>> >
>> > I'm willing to bet that the time taken to release is proportional to the
>> > size of the distribution. Ie, debian isn't getting slower, debian is
>> > getting bigger.
>>
>> Yes, we have more packages now, but we also have more developers to deal with
>> them. And we always have a big pool of people that wish to become DD, so man
>> power is not the problem, in my opinion.
>
> Manpower almost certainly isn't the problem with archive size, and I don't
> think it really ever has been. The problem is, primarily, the increasing
> complexity and size of the dependency tree, and the number and complexity of
> interactions between packages in the archive. Keeping that all straight can
> be very, very tricky -- and it gets increasingly tricky as the archive
> grows.
>
> - Matt
A bit OT but has anyone done an analysis of the Depends and
Build-Depends graph? How many depends does a package have on average?
Whats the longer Build-Depends chain? What is the biggest cycle? and
so on ....
MfG
Goswin
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