about Linux-specific packages

[Aurelien Jarno]

Robert Millan a écrit :
> Hi list,
> 
> We currently have 0.76 of packages in archive [1].  Does this number take into
We never reached this value, it seems you have rounded it a bit...

> account the packages that are utterly Linux-specific which we don't have to
> port?  I'm thinking on things like modutils, udev or console-tools, but also the
> gazillon of linux-image-* packages.
> 
> If this is so, what do we have to fix in order to increase this ratio?  Is
> Packages-arch-specific being used, or the Architecture field of the packages?
> (IOW, will it help if we start filing bugs?)

This P-a-S file is used:
http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/Packages-arch-specific

The only way to increase this percentage is to port packages, the stats 
are already correct.

Bye,
Aurelien

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