Re: Introducting Debian Trends: historical graphs about Debian packaging practices, and "packages smells"

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 03:46:57PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 10:20:53 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> 
> > TL;DR: see https://trends.debian.net and
> > https://trends.debian.net/#smells
> 
> Very nice, thank you.

+1
I like it a lot!

> > [4] https://trends.debian.net/smells-dd-list.txt

As far as I understood you are using lintian results.  However,
the real packaging does not (always) reflect this.  At least I've
found an example.  Link [4] lists:

   
    biococoa (U)         does not use Debhelper (no compat level found) (source version: 2.2.2-4)
    biococoa (U)         should switch to dh. Current build system: cdbs (source version: 2.2.2-4)


However:  

   $ apt-get source biococoa
   $ cd biococoa-2.2.2/
   $ cat debian/compat
   10
   $ grep debhelper debian/control
   debhelper (>= 11~),

Are you sure that you are not tricked by false positives from lintian?

Kind regards and thanks a lot for this great effort.

       Andreas.

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