Re: Number of Debian packages available.

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 02:36:43PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Ma, 16 oct 12, 14:00:10, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>  
> > $ aptitude search ~Astable | wc -l
> > 43004
> > $ aptitude search ~Astable~scontrib | wc -l
> > 271
> > $ aptitude search ~Astable~snon-free | wc -l
> > 583
> 
> Oups, 'stable' will also match 'unstable', so the correct search (also 
> excluding non-Debian sources) is:
> 
> $ aptitude search '~A^stable~ODebian' | wc -l
> 28875
> $ aptitude search '~A^stable~ODebian~scontrib' | wc -l
> 189
> $ aptitude search '~A^stable~ODebian~snon-free' | wc -l
> 408
> 
> My numbers are still a bit bigger than the count from the Packages file, 
> but don't know why (it doesn't seem to be due to virtual packages).

I think your number is about right for squeeze.

Debian FAQ package number is not scripted.  So needs to file bug report
to package.

Osamu