Re: Proposal of new control field: Date
* Enrico Zini [Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:50:41 +0000]:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 08:44:16PM +0100, Leo costela Antunes wrote:
> > I would propose something like freshness of bugs vs. freshness of last
> > non-binary upload, possibly weighted. This would let old but
> > non-problematic packages off the radar.
> I don't have the time to design and test such an algorithm (and I'd have
> to also brush up my statistics), but if anyone else wants to try and see
> how it goes, that's fine to me.
There was something akin to this (though targetted at spotting orphaning
/ removal candidates rather than just to assess the liveness of a package):
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/bapase
Not sure if that continues to be active or not. Bcc'ing bapase@qa.debian.org
in case they want to comment. Context is:
> If anyone can suggest me a decent heuristics to spot a 'rotting' package
> (like, for example standards-version older than X, but you need to tell
> me what X), I can automatically mine it and turn it into a debtags tag.
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