Debian Developers - Re: Development standards for unstable

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Re: Development standards for unstable

Joey Hess

2006-01-13, 10:44 pm

Andrew Suffield wrote:
> Well it's nice in theory. The problem is that you have to set the
> threshold high enough to exempt glibc and dpkg, and when you do that,
> I have not yet found a metric that complains about any other packages
> (I've tried two or three times to invent one).

I think the problem might be that the formula doesn't take the package's
installed base and/or age into account. The number of bugs in the BTS
tends to increase as both values increase without much connection to
the actual number of bugs in the package that affect many users, since
people eventually hit most of the edge cases, and those sort of bugs are
often the least likely to get fixed.

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