*On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Lucas Nussbaum <lu...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Following my blog post yesterday with updated graphs about Debian > packaging evolution[1], I prepared lists of packages for each kind of > "outdatedness". Of course not all practices highlighted below are > deprecated, and there are good reasons to continue to do some of them. > But still, given that they all represent a clear minority of packages, I > thought that it would be useful to list the related packages. (I > honestly didn't know if some of my packages would show up in the lists!) > > [1] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=891 > > The lists are available at https://people.debian.org/~lucas/qa-20151226/ > > I also pushed them to alioth, so you can either do: > ssh people.debian.org 'grep -A 10 YOURNAME > ~lucas/public_html/qa-20151226/*ddlist' > or: > ssh alioth.debian.org 'grep -A 10 YOURNAME ~lucas/qa-20151226/*ddst' > > the meaning of the lists is:
Could you open a bug under lintian, with the code you use (snippet). I will add pedantic warning > qa-comaint_but_no_vcs.txt (275 packages) > > Based on the content of Maintainer/Uploaders, the package is co-maintained, > but there are no Vcs-* fields. This one will add info tag > qa-format_10.txt (3153 packages) > > The package is still using format 1.0. Need to differentiate with https://lintian.debian.org/tags/missing-debian-source-format.html Will add format 1 tag without default... > > qa-helper_classic_debhelper.txt (3647 packages) > > The package is still using "classic" debhelper (no dh, no CDBS). How do you check ? > > qa-helper_not_debhelper.txt (144 packages) > > The package is not using debhelper (nor dh, nor CDBS). How do you check ? > qa-patch_dpatch.txt (170 packages) > > The package is using dpatch. How do you check ? > qa-patch_modified-files-outside-debian.txt (1156 packages) > > The package has modified files outside the debian/ directory (not tracked > using patches). How do you check ? > qa-patch_more_than_one.txt (201 packages) > > The package uses more than one "patch system". In most cases, it means that > the package uses a patch system, but also has files modified directly > outside > of debian/. > > qa-patch_other.txt (51 packages) How do you check ? > The package has patches, but uses an unidentified/unknown patch system. > > qa-patch_quilt.txt (445 packages) > > The package uses quilt (with 1.0 format, not 3.0 format). How do you check ? Depend on quilt ? > qa-patch_simple-patchsys.txt (129 packages) > > The package uses simple-patchsys. How do you check ? > qa-vcs_but_not_git_or_svn.txt (290 packages) > > The package is maintained using a VCS, which is not either Git or SVN. This one is really bellow pedantic... > qa-vcs_more_than_one_declared_vcs.txt (1 package) > > The package declares more than one VCS. > How do you check ? > If you don't understand why your package is listed, you can have a look at > allpackages-20151226.yaml that provides more details. If you still don't > understand, just ask me. > > Excluding duplicates, a total of 5469 packages are listed. The dd-list for the > merged list is available at > https://people.debian.org/~lucas/qa-20151226/merged.ddlist (which isn't very > useful, except to know if you are listed; see how to grep individual lists > above). > > - Lucas
