Re: percentage of popcon submitters

2009-01-16 Thread Kjeldgaard Morten
On 16/01/2009, at 23.25, The Fungi wrote: Same here, though with a caching Debian package proxy instead of an actual mirror. Nonetheless, s.d.o only sees one download of a given security update even though it's actually being retrieved by hundreds of machines. On 16/01/2009, at 18.27, Johann

Re: percentage of popcon submitters

2009-01-16 Thread Kjeldgaard Morten
On 16/01/2009, at 11.09, Neil Williams wrote: How do you map the number of downloads to the number of users or machines? I have dozens of chroots that I use for multiple reasons. Now, maybe I should use an apt proxy but most of these are cross-building chroots so that doesn't help as the proxy w

Re: percentage of popcon submitters

2009-01-15 Thread Kjeldgaard Morten
Thanks. Unless you setup some experimental method, any argument should reduce to handwaving or extension of various particular examples.. Surely, it must be possible to get an estimate of the number of downloads of important packages and security updates? I know these downloads also are

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-21 Thread Kjeldgaard Morten
On 15/12/2008, at 21.25, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Or you might use experimental, and keep unstable for lenny. Another model that I think has not been discussed is never freezing stable. Say "stable" is redefined as "bug-free" in the sense that there are no RC bugs in that repo. If a serio