On Fri, 25 Aug 2017 08:33:00 -0400 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Oh, on looking again, I remembered a question--what do those numbers > represent? When I first saw the list, in order with the higher numbers > first, I thought maybe the numbers represented something like number of > downloads, but, once I knew the order was in inverse order, I realized > that was not the case. > > What do those numbers represent / where do they come from?
It's the package's position in debian's popularity ranking, I think "dpkg" is no. 1 :) Regards Michael >