On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 7:06 PM Nathan Willis wrote: > what are the best relatively-modern tools for exploring stats about a set of packages from the Debian archive? Basically everyone doing this reinvents the wheel from scratch and most Debian services themselves have done that. > the old Font Review service The code for this is still available, unfortunately it is in a very large tarball of the old subversion repository and I'm not sure anyone bothered to migrate it to salsa, so I've attached a copy of the code from my local checkout. https://wiki.debian.org/Services/DebianFontReview https://alioth-archive.debian.org/svn/pkg-fonts.tar.xz (6GB) If you want to revive this, please see my old mail about it: https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fonts-devel/2016-September/018325.html Basically, it used Contents files to find out which packages contain fonts and then aptitude to download them and then in a loop it unpacked them, checked for font files, checked if the fonts were known already and then computed things for new fonts that it found out about. I think this approach is approximately right, but it could do with some parallelism, using apt's built-in caching, switching from downloading/parsing Contents to using apt-file and similar. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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