Bug#271360: www.debian.org: 8710 packages
On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 07:36:44AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> $ lynx -dump http://www.debian.org/
> Debian GNU/Linux provides more than a pure OS: it comes with more
> than 8710 [46]packages
>
> Hogwash. It's probably twice that many.
> Use round figures unless you intend to update weekly.
> Or say 'tens of thousands'.
> $ dpkg -l \*|wc -l
> 21564
> $ grep-available . --count
> 15343
Only packages in stable/main count for this number. It is only updated
when we do a new release (I can't say how it was counted exactly though,
I get only 8672[1], but perhaps we removed some packages in the point
releases)
[1] I got this number by going to gluck.debian.org:/org/packages.debian.org/files/archive/ (method for DDs only, obviously) and executing:
grep -h ^Package: stable_*main*Packages | sed -e 's/Package: //' | sort | uniq | wc -l
Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
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