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remember how people say that #debian is always out of date and old? i did the math, we have the passing grade! (in unstable: 65% up to date, 20% out of date, and 12% errors, and 3% *newer*), not bad no? https://salsa.debian.org/lucas/debian-trends/-/issues/1

upstream freshness status (uscan/watch) (#1) · Issues · Lucas Nussbaum / debian-trends · GitLab

It would be kind of nice to see how up to date Debian is, in general. I know of https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/watch but that gives...
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another way to interpret those results is that there's *only* one out of five (20%) packages that's lagging behind upstream in Debian, the rest are either up to date (65%), or upstream died or can't be bothered to keep their URLs working (12%). we even have packages that are *newer* than upstream for some obscure reason (3%)
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