Re: Histogram of ages of packages incrementally installed over 15 years

To: "Kingsley G. Morse Jr." <kingsley@loaner.com>
Cc: debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Histogram of ages of packages incrementally installed over 15 years
From: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:06:51 -0400
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On 7/8/2011 4:27 PM, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote:

I thought you might be interested in the attached
histogram.

It's my shrine to the genius of debian's package management.

Wait a minute, you mean to say that you have packages installed thathave not seen an update in 10+ years? How can that be? There arepackages that haven't been updated for multiple stable releases thathave not completely rotted away? Which ones?

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