{"id":751,"date":"2013-03-04T15:05:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T13:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=751"},"modified":"2013-03-04T18:02:28","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T16:02:28","slug":"debian-is-still-changing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=751","title":{"rendered":"Debian is (still) changing"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Looking for those graphs online, I realized that I never properly published them, besides that old post<\/a>)<\/p>\n

I’ve been playing with snapshot.d.o<\/a>, which is a fantastic resource if you want to look at Debian from an historical perspective (well, since 2005 at least).<\/p>\n

Team maintenance<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"comaint\"
\nWe now have more team-maintained packages than packages maintained by someone alone. Interestingly, the “small, ad-hoc group of developers” model does not really take off.<\/p>\n

Maintenance using a VCS<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"vcs\"<\/p>\n

A large majority of our packages are maintained in a VCS repository, with Git being the clear winner now.<\/p>\n

Possible goal for Jessie: standardize on a Git workflow, since every team tends to design its own?<\/p>\n

Packaging helpers<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"helpers\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Again, we have a clear winner here, with dh. It’s interesting to note that, while dh was designed as a CDBS killer<\/a>, it kind-of fails in that role.<\/p>\n

Possible goal for Jessie: deprecate at least pure-debhelper packaging?<\/p>\n

Patch systems and packaging formats<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"formats-patches\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Again, clear winner with 3.0 (quilt).<\/p>\n

The (dirty) scripts that generate those graphs are available in Git<\/a>\u00a0(but you need to connect to stabile to execute them, and it’s rather time consuming — hours\/days).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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