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By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:37:33 +0000

You might also want to check out oswatershed.org and contact the head of that website – he might have useful scripts.

By: Admin

Admin — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:31:04 +0000

Hi Jonathan,

You might be right. My first estimates regarding the number of packages was pretty naive. Since then I have got a lot of different views on the number of packages and I am planning to write a updated POST on this one.

Thanks for your comment and suggestion!

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By: Jonathan Dahan

Jonathan Dahan — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 08:27:19 +0000

This gives a more accurate estimate of the number of *applications* offered by Debian.

tail -n +7 allpackages | cut -d’ ‘ -f1 | cut -d’-’ -f1 | uniq | wc -l

Stable: 11448
Testing: 12194
Unstable: 13012

This is still incredibly impressive. The number of *packages* indicate the hard work of the developers/maintainers while the number of *applications* should be more useful for end-users.

By: Jonathan Dahan

Jonathan Dahan — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:17:35 +0000

It would be cool if you where able to do things like consolidate…
acpi-modules
acpi-modules-2.6.26-2-486-di
acpi-modules-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem-di
acpi-modules-2.6.26-2-amd64-di
…to just one package, since the end-user is probably more concerned with the number of unique packages the distribution offers. You could call this metric ‘number of unique programs offered by Debian’, doing things like grouping -doc, -dev, and consolidating all the ’same package, just compiled for a different arch (see atl2-modules)’ packages. Definitely splitting by arch is useful, too, though this is a big task.

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By: Kirya [.net] » Blog Archive » Counting Debian source packages

Kirya [.net] » Blog Archive » Counting Debian source packages — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 07:41:49 +0000

[...] to Kushal’s post about counting total number of Debian packages, he concluded that sid currently has more than [...]

By: Kushal

Kushal — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:19:42 +0000

There are but you are right – the number cannot be 6000+. I think I need to better define as to what those number constitutes. What I will do is update that post with some more refined information and will acknowledge you bringing this out to attention.

Thank you again for your interest.

By: Octy

Octy — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:35:57 +0000

I am on an x86… are there packages in other architectures and not in i386? 6000 packages?

By: Kushal

Kushal — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:47:47 +0000

Hi Octy,

It just struck me as to why there are differences in our numbers – I think it is because of the architectures. What architecture do you have? x86, amd64, armel, etc? Debian supports as many as 14 architectures and the packages are not same for all architectures.

So for example, package A might be in x86 but might not be in amd64. I think Synaptic counts the number of packages that are available in the architecture whereas I calculated the total number of packages across all architectures..

This is how I did:
Let’s say we want to calculate for sid – Download this file:http://packages.debian.org/unstable/allpackages?format=txt.gz
and then give the command:
wc -l
Subtract 6 (because of the header in the beginning) from the total that you get.

I will continue to re-check my calculation and my method. It could be that I might be slightly off.

By: Octy

Octy — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:47:31 +0000

Synaptic?!? it’s much easier… just change the repository, update, and it will show you the number of packages…

By: Kushal

Kushal — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:08:50 +0000

Hi Octy,

Sid is pretty volatile branch although currently it is pretty stable because testing (Lenny) is in Freeze state. So I don’t expect such a huge difference in number of packages – around 6000. I will recheck it again. Just out of curiosity how (what method) did you calculate the number of packages.

Thank you for your comment.

By: Octy

Octy — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:00:31 +0000

There are “only” 24769 packages in sid at the moment…