Hello,
I was writing a script to see how much a package is depended upon, i. e. cumulatively culculating Reverse-Build-Deps, and Reverse-dependencies. However, I thought it might be useful to see what kind of packages have a "weight", i.e. needs fixing first for packages to enter "testing". As I anticipated, it has a lot of "loops", and it is going in ridiculous values. These things should have had trouble when porting to new arches, but anyway, I have put the script up on http://mikilab.doshisha.ac.jp/~dancer/analyse-sourcepackages It requires Packages.gz and Sources.gz on the current directory. It needs tweaking (like removing all base/required/build-essential packages from the selection to reduce the number of loops), but anyway. The number on the left is the superficious "number of packages which depend on this package", hopefully. 3.24463e+09 liburi-perl 3.24463e+09 libnet-perl 3.24463e+09 libmime-base64-perl 3.24463e+09 libhtml-tagset-perl 3.24463e+09 libhtml-parser-perl 3.24462e+09 libsgmls-perl 3.24462e+09 libi18n-langtags-perl 3.24462e+09 debiandoc-sgml 2.34979e+09 sgml-base 2.34979e+09 sed 1425083059 zlib 1272054460 symlinks 1177662310 sgml-data 923320735 patch 893015369 dpkg 692266802 debianutils 617864726 fileutils 574628341 m4 486285077 flex 474784868 autoconf 296341728 autotools-dev 294774234 kernel-package 287772245 bzip2 232608922 gcc272 232608918 linux86 232321264 libtool 220897012 slang 147395314 e2fsprogs 147387953 util-linux 147387948 sysvinit 147387940 modutils 147100289 kernel-source-2.4.9 147013175 base-passwd 147013020 makedev 95298072 jade 90330961 libjpeg6b 77166180 pmake 73551186 byacc 73550152 ash 73550148 kernel-source-2.4.8 73550142 initrd-tools 73507062 gpm 73506654 aalib 73506497 devfsd 73506492 libggi 73378169 svgalib4libggi 68743694 libpng 65730152 sharutils 64991458 docbook-xml 63830131 automake 37208560 autoconf2.13 36775071 kernel-image-sparc-2.4 36775071 kernel-image-2.4.9-i386 36775071 kernel-image-2.4.8-i386 36689088 svgalib 36688940 svgalib-dummy 36688801 gs 36684502 tcl8.3 36682876 lynx 36681394 tcl8.0 36681213 tcl8.2 36681104 utah-glx 36679531 menu 36679469 mh 36679467 xfree86 32006927 tiff 30466075 opensp 29400691 docbook 29169746 readline4 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer
