Re: lintian: error package list
On 2012-10-05 08:40, Hideki Yamane wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Oct 2012 08:00:48 +0200
> Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> wrote:
>> On lintian.d.o, doing:
>> $ grep ^E: /srv/lintian.debian.org/logs/lintian.log | wc -l
>>
>> gives you that list[1]. Attached is the list of unique tags making up
>> all the triggered error tags.
>>
>> ~Niels
>>
>> [1] Actually it gives you 2378 hits instead of 2360. Possibly caused by
>> packages triggering an old tag which is now removed that has not been
>> rechecked since.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Then, next question is, Is there any historical data about this?
> I think it's very important measure to check packages' quality.
>
> In my opinion, Quarity in Debian means three aspects.
> 1. of package
> 2. of upstream software
> 3. of whole distribution
>
> lintian and piuparts can check "1" and measure it is important role
> to know we are going to be better or not.
>
>
We have some historical data; I have used it in the past to see how fast
the build-arch target was being adopted[1].
You can find that data in /srv/lintian.debian.org/history on
lintian.d.o. We do also have a bug to turn that data into graphs (#672273).
~Niels
[1]
http://people.debian.org/~nthykier/rg-build-arch-target/affected-packages-graphs.png
data:
http://people.debian.org/~nthykier/rg-build-arch-target/affected-packages-graphs.dat
NB: Huge spikes are almost always fixes in Lintian or/and fill runs.
There is one of the smaller spikes caused by a maintainer uploads.
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