Re: 132 packages with several sources for stretch in the archive… (Re: Bug#860608: [pkg-golang-devel] Bug#860608: golang: FTBFS: Go version is "go1.6.1", ignoring -next /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/api/next.txt)

[Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>]

Hi,

On 21-04-17 13:29, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 01:00:20PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
>> FYI, that's the number of additional copies of source packages in
>> stretch, per source package:
>>
>> udd=> select source, count(*) from sources where release='stretch' and
>> component='main' and extra_source_only group by source order by count
>> desc;
> [...]
>> (132 rows)
> 
> that's quite astounding (to me) and IMHO also quite bad… can we do something
> to fix this for Buster at least?

I don't think this number is bad per-se (assuming this extra_source_only
just meant it has "Build-Using"). The bad thing in my opinion is when
multiple version are kept around for a long time. I use this Build-Using
in multiple of my package, exactly to be able for this kind of analysis
(and in the end I hope globally fixing per release with (binNMU)
rebuilding).

Paul

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