On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 01:24:36PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote:
> What is right in the open but I do not see discussed in this context is
> the sheer amount of packages that are added to the distribution. It is a
> raise from close to 10000 to similarly close to 30000 in a bit over 14
> years, so this makes close to 1500 packages/anno or close to 4 per day,
I guess it's not being discussed because it's no news?!
Even wikipedia knows about it, see the table of the bottom of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_version_history
Granted, those are only binary packages but...
https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/unstable/amd64/stats_pkg_state.png
OTOH shows the growth of the number of sources packages in the last 6 years
and matches the above.
And then there was a talk by a DPL with the first name "Lucas" at FOSDEM
a few years ago, where he spoke about having 400000 packages in Debian one
day... I don't remember whether he ment source or binary packages though :)
> equally throughout all these years. Knowing about all the time I spend
> on checking copyrights already, not always successfully, I know about
> the enormous work our FTPmasters invest into keeping this up. So, many
> thanks!
yes, very amazing work of everyone involved!
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cheers,
Holger
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