Re: Age of built packages to be part of the jessie release?
Svante Signell wrote:
> I wonder how old a package build can be to be part of the release. Some
> packages are built up to a year ago, and rebuilding them now FTBFS.
As others have noted already, there are period archive rebuilds to check
what would now ftbfs.
Slightly orthogonal to your question, "up to a year ago" doesn't come close,
actually... 42% of source packages in jessie were uploaded over a year ago,
25% over two years ago, 15% over three years ago, 9% over four years ago.
Fun fact: there are 64 source packages in jessie that are over 10 years old.
Age of source packages in each release:
http://ircbots.debian.net/stats/package_ages.png
(note: this is based on source package uploads; binNMUs not included)
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