Debian packaging practices evolved over time. This page provides some historical perspective about how those practices evolved. This data was generated with lintian, a rather basic script, data from snapshot.debian.org starting in 2005, and computational power from Grid'5000. This is a static page, last refreshed in September 2025. If it is not fresh enough, nag the author!
All graphs are for Debian testing (main only, not contrib/non-free), because there is a number of unmaintained or abandonned packages in Debian unstable that we do not want to report about. Alternate graphs with Debian unstable are also provided. Each graph provides the number of packages in each case over time. Vertical lines indicate release dates.
Contact: Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org>
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Note that "no" is now the default, so this graph is mainly interesting for the historical perspective.
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This tracks packages that declare a Testsuite
in debian/control
and/or the dsc file.
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This graph only looks at source packages, and thus misses:
debian/salsa-ci.yml
in source using a debian/.gitattributes
filerecipes/debian.yml@salsa-ci-team/pipeline
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This tracks packages that use git-buildpackage by checking for presence of debian/gbp.conf
. It misses packages that use git-buildpackage but do not include a debian/gbp.conf
file.
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This is based on the analysis of the Dgit
and Git-Tag-Info
fields in the dsc file.
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Inspired by code smells (any characteristic in the source code of a program that possibly indicates a deeper problem), this page also provides a list of packages that should be refreshed to newer standards.
This is subjective (and feel free to criticize, but I might feel free to ignore critics :-) ). Here is the logic:
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Contact: Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org>. See Introduction for pointers to source code.