On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 05:43:17PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Mon, 16 May 2016 08:42:18 -0300, Joao Eriberto Mota Filho wrote:
>
> > Please, add last-upload and Standards-Version columns. These columns will
> > provide an easiest mode to find and help very old packages, discover visually
> > MIA maintainers, predict future problems, etc.
>
> I have no opinion if those fields should be added but I don't agree
> with your concluison above.
>
> In my experience it's correct that un(der)-maintained packages
> usually have old Standars-Versions or debhelper compatibility levels
> etc. But the opposite is not necessarily true: They are not a reason
> to upload an otherwise fine package in themselves, so there are
> enough packages without bug reports or new upstream releases which
> haven't been touched in a while.
>
> Just because I was curious myself: Here are the numbers for the
> pkg-perl packages (from git):
>
> 1532 Standards-Version: 3.9.6
> 503 Standards-Version: 3.9.5
> 271 Standards-Version: 3.9.4
> 227 Standards-Version: 3.9.7
> 161 Standards-Version: 3.9.8
> 148 Standards-Version: 3.9.2
> 92 Standards-Version: 3.9.1
> 86 Standards-Version: 3.9.3
> 50 Standards-Version: 3.8.3
> 39 Standards-Version: 3.8.4
> 31 Standards-Version: 3.8.2
> 30 Standards-Version: 3.8.0
> 27 Standards-Version: 3.7.3
> 15 Standards-Version: 3.8.1
> 3 Standards-Version: 3.9.0
Just because I can, here are the numbers for the whole unstable:
$ grep-dctrl -s Standards-Version '' /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.br.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_source_Sources | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
1 Standards-Version: 3.0.0
1 Standards-Version: 3.1.0
1 Standards-Version: 3.5.0
1 Standards-Version: 3.5.1
1 Standards-Version: 3.5.1.0
1 Standards-Version: 3.5.2.0
1 Standards-Version: 3.5.5.0
1 Standards-Version: 3.7.1.2
1 Standards-Version: 3.9.5.1
1 Standards-Version: 3.9.6h
1 Standards-Version: 5
2 Standards-Version: 3.0.1
2 Standards-Version: 3.2.1.0
2 Standards-Version: 3.5.10
2 Standards-Version: 3.5.6.1
2 Standards-Version: 3.5.8.0
2 Standards-Version: 3.5.9
2 Standards-Version: 3.6.0.1
3 Standards-Version: 3.2.1
3 Standards-Version: 3.6.2.2
3 Standards-Version: 3.9.0.0
4 Standards-Version: 3.1.1
4 Standards-Version: 3.5.6.0
4 Standards-Version: 3.6.1.1
4 Standards-Version: 3.7.0
4 Standards-Version: 3.7.2.1
6 Standards-Version: 3.6.0
6 Standards-Version: 3.6.2.1
6 Standards-Version: 3.9.8.0
7 Standards-Version: 3.5.6
7 Standards-Version: 3.5.7
7 Standards-Version: 3.8.0.0
8 Standards-Version: 3.8.1.0
8 Standards-Version: 3.8.4.0
9 Standards-Version: 3.7.2.0
10 Standards-Version: 3.5.8
11 Standards-Version: 3.6.2.0
11 Standards-Version: 3.8.0.1
12 Standards-Version: 3.6.1.0
12 Standards-Version: 3.7.3.0
13 Standards-Version: 3.9.7.0
14 Standards-Version: 3.8.2.0
15 Standards-Version: 3.9.3.0
17 Standards-Version: 3.8.3.0
18 Standards-Version: 3.9.4.0
19 Standards-Version: 3.5.2
19 Standards-Version: 3.7.2.2
19 Standards-Version: 3.9.1.0
29 Standards-Version: 3.9.2.0
41 Standards-Version: 3.9.6.0
42 Standards-Version: 3.9.5.0
45 Standards-Version: 3.9.0
46 Standards-Version: 3.9.3.1
49 Standards-Version: 3.9.6.1
51 Standards-Version: 3.6.1
76 Standards-Version: 3.6.2
110 Standards-Version: 3.8.2
130 Standards-Version: 3.8.1
224 Standards-Version: 3.7.3
252 Standards-Version: 3.8.0
272 Standards-Version: 3.7.2
357 Standards-Version: 3.8.4
368 Standards-Version: 3.8.3
486 Standards-Version: 3.9.1
1136 Standards-Version: 3.9.2
1151 Standards-Version: 3.9.3
1731 Standards-Version: 3.9.4
1778 Standards-Version: 3.9.8
3039 Standards-Version: 3.9.7
3124 Standards-Version: 3.9.5
10121 Standards-Version: 3.9.6
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