Hello, I just skimmed through https://trends.debian.net/ and am impressed. Many thanks for these figures. Do you accept wishes for additional graphs? Mine would be on the number of build dependencies as a scale for software complexity and how this evolved over time. My hunch is that later software has more dependencies than earlier ones. Would of course be cool to also have other software metrics over time. Anyway - fanstastic plots already!
What is right in the open but I do not see discussed in this context is the sheer amount of packages that are added to the distribution. It is a raise from close to 10000 to similarly close to 30000 in a bit over 14 years, so this makes close to 1500 packages/anno or close to 4 per day, equally throughout all these years. Knowing about all the time I spend on checking copyrights already, not always successfully, I know about the enormous work our FTPmasters invest into keeping this up. So, many thanks! Best, Steffen
