Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Luk Claes wrote: >> How can we be sure the packages are of decent quality if almost noone >> uses them? How can we be sure there are (almost) no unreported RC bugs >> for instance? > > If a tree falls in a forest, and no-one is there to hear it, does it make a > sound? > > How can you be sure there are no unreported RC bugs in the popular packages? It's all about the likelihood... > In other words, if almost no-one uses them, does it matter if the packages > are of decent quality? Also, if almost no-one uses them, how do you know > they're of bad quality? It does matter if they are of decent quality as we need to support them (mirrors, infrastructure, security support etc.). I don't say they are of bad quality, don't turn my words... > I think you should be looking for some additional metrics for package > removal, such as age, date of last upload, for example, in addition to size > of install base, before deciding that a package is stale. (Because IMHO, if > a package has no bugs filed against it, you can't honestly say you want to > file for removal because it's potentially buggy.) Note that besides not being used by many people, the packages are orphaned and will be tested to the points: >>> (a) aren't ITAed, and >>> (b) have been orphaned for more than, say, three months >>> (c) don't have some special reason why popcon would be unrepresentative >>> (d) don't have any other special reasons to stay in Debian Cheers Luk -- Luk Claes - http://people.debian.org/~luk - GPG key 1024D/9B7C328D Fingerprint: D5AF 25FB 316B 53BB 08E7 F999 E544 DE07 9B7C 328D
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