[Build-common-hackers] my CDBS gallery: real-world rules samples

[Peter Eisentraut]

Caio Begotti wrote:
> I'm looking now for some peer review and comments about the general
> idea and would love if someone can confirm my stats about the number
> of source packages using the CDBS framework :-)
>
> The only suggestion I don't know how to implement is a 'history diff'
> (before the CDBS switch in the source package) using the data
> provided by http://snapshot.debian.net/ but I am not yet sure whether
> that could be really useful now or not.

For trivial amusement, here is the output of a little statistics tool 
that I developed a while back.  It shows the percent of packages that 
use cdbs.  The first column is source packages, the second binary 
packages.

Sources-sid-main-2005-04:  9.76 10.02
Sources-sid-main-2005-05: 10.20 10.62
Sources-sid-main-2005-06: 10.36 10.76
Sources-sid-main-2005-07: 10.76 11.16
Sources-sid-main-2005-08: 11.05 11.36
Sources-sid-main-2005-09: 11.48 12.32
Sources-sid-main-2005-10: 12.08 13.12
Sources-sid-main-2005-11: 12.66 13.68
Sources-sid-main-2005-12: 13.13 14.13
Sources-sid-main-2006-01: 13.29 14.37
Sources-sid-main-2006-02: 13.59 15.00
Sources-sid-main-2006-03: 13.97 15.34
Sources-sid-main-2006-04: 14.38 15.73
Sources-sid-main-2006-05: 14.53 16.17
Sources-sid-main-2006-06: 14.71 16.30
Sources-sid-main-2006-07: 15.17 16.54
Sources-sid-main-2006-08: 15.84 17.04
Sources-sid-main-2006-09: 16.23 17.07

As you can see, we are projected to have achieved world domination 
around the year 2020.  Or whatever. :)