Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@debian.org> writes: >> But if we have tons of '.' or 'o' lists, for sure we will need to >> break that rule and support them. Do you have numbers about how many >> such lists we have? If they are just a few they can easily be fixed, >> if they are half the archive (which I doubt, having seen them rarely) >> it would be a different story ...
>>>>> ,-- count-bullet-chars.sh -- >>>>> #!/bin/sh >>>>> lists=/var/lib/apt/lists/*_sid_main_*_Packages >>>>> total=`grep "^ *[-+\*o] " $lists | wc -l` >>>>> for tag in "\*" "-" "+" "o"; do >>>>> items=`grep "^ *$tag " $lists | wc -l` >>>>> percent=`echo "scale=4; $items / $total * 100" | bc` >>>>> echo "Tag $tag was used $items times ($percent%)" >>>>> done >>>>> `-- > >>>>> Tag \* was used 9277 times (68.0900%) >>>>> Tag - was used 3837 times (28.1600%) >>>>> Tag + was used 120 times (.8800%) >>>>> Tag o was used 390 times (2.8600%) And for completeness: Tag \. was used 17 times (.1200%) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org