On Thu, Apr 7, 2016, at 08:22, Neil Williams wrote: > On Thu, 7 Apr 2016 01:05:48 +0200 > Steffen Möller <steffen_moel...@gmx.de> wrote: > > > On 06/04/16 21:19, Wookey wrote: > > >> > .. perhaps be more aggressive in > > >> > removing software that's no longer useful and just lies in the > > >> > archive dormant. > > > The fact that Debian has a lot of software is a genuine benefit. > > > Just because stuff is old, does not mean it is no longer useful. The > > > problem is that we don't really know how to distinguish between > > > old-and-just-cruft and old-and-still-handy. > > The popcon stats may help. > > Really, NO. > > popcon is indicative only and the stats are only useful as metrics when > popcon counts become "significant". Any popcon score which is less than > 1% or 5% of the archive is not much better than a guess. The problem is > that those are precisely the packages where removal is likely.
What I meant in my initial report was to use the popcon > n% as a indicator to stop the automatic removal after everything else indicate that it should be marked as "outdated". O. -- Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> Knot DNS (https://www.knot-dns.cz/) – a high-performance DNS server
