We've all heard that the bug count in Debian is rising... some may have argued that this is because we have an increasing number of packages in the archive. I just looked at the data from over 2 years of packages in the base system. The definition of "base system" changes as some packages get removed while others are added (ae being an example of a package which was removed at some point). That's why I looked at 83 important packages (see attachment) whose status has not changed. And the result is depressing... see for yourself: http://bugs.debian.org/~tbm/base_bugs.png
I think we should promote co-maintainers for important packages and try to get people to submit patches for open bugs to help the maintainers. (No news here, but we should *really* do it now. Yes, I mean really.) -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
apt at base-files base-passwd bash bsdmainutils bsdutils console-common console-data console-tools console-tools-libs cpio cron debconf debianutils diff dpkg e2fsprogs ed exim fileutils findutils gettext-base grep gzip hostname ifupdown info ipchains klogd libc6 libdb2 libident libldap2 libncurses5 libnewt0 libpam0g libpam-modules libpam-runtime libpcre3 libpopt0 libreadline4 libsasl7 libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 libwrap0 lilo login logrotate mailx makedev man-db manpages mawk mbr modconf modutils mount nano ncurses-base ncurses-bin netbase netkit-inetd netkit-ping net-tools nvi passwd perl-base ppp procps sed sel setserial shellutils slang1 sysklogd syslinux sysvinit tar tcpd telnet textutils util-linux whiptail
