On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > Hello, > > > I was writing a script to see how much a package is depended upon, > i. e. cumulatively culculating Reverse-Build-Deps, and > Reverse-dependencies. However, I thought it might be useful to see > what kind of packages have a "weight", i.e. needs fixing first for > packages to enter "testing". > > As I anticipated, it has a lot of "loops", and it is going in ridiculous > values. These things should have had trouble when porting to new arches, > but anyway, I have put the script up on > http://mikilab.doshisha.ac.jp/~dancer/analyse-sourcepackages > > > It requires Packages.gz and Sources.gz on the current directory. > > It needs tweaking (like removing all base/required/build-essential packages > from the > selection to reduce the number of loops), but anyway. > The number on the left is the superficious "number of packages which depend > on this package", hopefully. > > > 3.24463e+09 liburi-perl
You need to debug your script. We don't have this much packages in any of our archives. Not even... [...] > 29169746 readline4 ... this much. -- wouter dot verhelst at advalvas dot be "Human knowledge belongs to the world" -- from the movie "Antitrust"