* Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050722 10:13]: > > During the debconf5 Debian Derivatives roundtable discussion, > <URL:http://dc5video.debian.net/2005-07-11/03-Debian_Derivatives_Panel-Benjamin_Mako_Hill.mpeg>, > an idea came up to notify all the debian maintainers of the packages > used by derivatives, and let them know we are proudly using their > packages. > > Kurt Gramlich started to have a look at this during debconf5, but I am > not sure how far he got. i am still working on the huge amount of contacts from debconf5 ;-)
> > Curious on how many people this could represent, I just ran a simple > script trying to find out. As I was running this on a woody > installatin, I used the list of packages on the woody CD, and the > maintainers of the woody package as the base for the list. > > ( for p in `cat pkgdeblist.txt|cut -d_ -f1`; do > grep-dctrl -s maintainer,uploaders,package \ > -F package "$p" /var/lib/dpkg/status > done ) > /tmp/maintainers.txt& > egrep 'maintainer|uploaders' /tmp/maintainers.txt |cut -d: -f2|sort -u|wc -l > > The final number I came up with is 240 unique mail addresses for > woody. There seem to be some duplicates as I look breafly at the > addresses. We should throw them all a big party to thank them. :) thanks. this helps to build up good contacts ;-) Regards/AmicaLinuxement/Viele Gruesse! Kurt Gramlich -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID 0xE263FCD4 http://www.skolelinux.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
