TL;DR: see https://trends.debian.net and https://trends.debian.net/#smells
Hi, Following this blog post[1] I did some work on setting up a proper framework to graph historical trends about Debian packaging practices. The result is now available at [2], and I'm confident that I will be able to update this on a regular basis (every few months). Additionally (and much more controversially I guess :-) ) I also added an analysis of "package smells"[3], 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 [4]. 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). - Lucas [1] https://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=945 [2] https://trends.debian.net/ [3] https://trends.debian.net/#smells [4] https://trends.debian.net/smells-dd-list.txt
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