Joey has a problem with tools used over dpkg-dev’s core tools to help maintainers maintain their debian packages. I was wondering about the adoption of those tools, so I simply grepped the logs from my last rebuild for “^Setting up $TOOL “, which is more accurate than looking at build-deps, since someteam-pkg-tools could depend on […]
There’s an interesting article on LWN.net about Gentoo: Who made Gentoo Linux, and when? A commit analysis I was wondering how Debian compared, so I made some stats using the debian-devel-changes archives. First, the number of source uploads per quarter: It’s interesting to note that, while the number of packages in Debian increased a lot, […]
if you like to monitor the number of RC bugs, you are probably annoyed by the graph on http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/. The graph starts in 2003, making it impossible to read short-time changes. There’s a bug about that: #431299: RC bug status graph timescale is too long. And I provided a patch a few months ago, but […]
You probably all know tetrinet – if you don’t, you should really try that game. There are several servers for that game out there, and one of them is tetrinetx. It is packaged in Debian, but it has several problems: It doesn’t support tetrifast mode. So you have to deal with that stupid 1-second delay […]
It is a common belief that Ubuntu provides newer software than Debian. This is of course true when Ubuntu is compared to Debian stable. This is also true for specific software packages, like Gnome. But how does it compare in general ? At the time of the Dapper release, here is how Ubuntu Dapper and […]
Update available here ! This page is OLD ! APINC, l’Association Pour la promotion de l’Internet Non Commercial, m’a donné l’autorisation d’analyser ses logs Apache pour 2004. Vu la quantité de données (presque 2000 sites, environ 1.5 millions de requêtes par jour, soit au total environ 90G de logs à analyser…), ca permet de faire […]