Re: Number of Debian packages available.

[Jon Dowland <jmtd@debian.org>]

This can be answered (by a developer) using UDD -
http://wiki.debian.org/UltimateDebianDatabase

The answer today is

udd=> select count(*),release from public.packages group by release;
 count  |         release          
--------+--------------------------
      2 | wheezy-security
 272170 | wheezy
 189517 | squeeze
 298810 | sid
  13816 | squeeze-backports
   8712 | squeeze-security
  34908 | experimental
    746 | wheezy-proposed-updates
    372 | squeeze-updates
    625 | squeeze-proposed-updates
(10 rows)

or source packages

udd=> select count(*),release from public.sources group by release;
 count |         release          
-------+--------------------------
     1 | wheezy-security
 17867 | wheezy
 14969 | squeeze
 18854 | sid
   599 | squeeze-backports
   207 | squeeze-security
  1007 | experimental
    16 | wheezy-proposed-updates
     6 | squeeze-updates
     9 | squeeze-proposed-updates
(10 rows)