Hi, On Mon, 02 Jun 2014, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > Following a very rough methodology: > > For updates in leaf packages with a patch available for stable-security > four updates should be sufficient for the updated packages and tests.
s/updates/hours/ ? > Sometimes the update is more involved (e.g. because it requires additional > changes to be backported) or a lot of reverse deps need to be tested, then > it may take up to a day. Let's assume that one third of the updates are of > that category. > > Then there's the odd exception which might still take more time, but that's > hard to factor in (some kernel updates e.g.). > > Filtering out the unsupported packaged this leaves us with 160 packages, > so approx 100-110 days. Just to verify the above correction, 1/3 * 160 * 1 + 2/3 * 160 * 0.5 =~ 107 work days per year, that matches your figure. Thanks Moritz ! -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Discover the Debian Administrator's Handbook: → http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
