{"id":960,"date":"2019-04-13T10:29:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T08:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=960"},"modified":"2019-04-13T10:29:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T08:29:39","slug":"introducing-debian-trends-historical-graphs-about-debian-packaging-practices-and-packages-smells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=960","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Debian Trends: historical graphs about Debian packaging practices, and “packages smells”"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a slightly edited copy of the mail sent to debian-devel@<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

TL;DR: see https:\/\/trends.debian.net<\/a> and https:\/\/trends.debian.net\/#smells<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Following this blog post<\/a> I did some work on setting up a proper framework to graph historical trends about Debian packaging practices. The result is now available at https:\/\/trends.debian.net\/<\/a>, and I’m confident that I will be able to update this on a regular basis (every few months).<\/p>\n

Additionally (and much more controversially I guess :-) ) I also added an analysis of “package smells”<\/a>, such as “not using dh”, “not using a recent debhelper compat level”, “not using a 3.0 source format”, etc. I understand that in some cases there might be good reasons to keep those “smells”, but I find it valuable to have them presented in a more actionable way to fix the cases that should be fixed. So there’s a list of smells, sorted by maintainer\/uploader<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Given that Debian is currently frozen to prepare the buster release, this is a bad time to start fixing those smells, but I will send a reminder to debian-devel@ once buster is released. (It’s interesting to see how the number of smells plateaued during previous freezes).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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