Another six months have passed, and the project , which regularly collects and compares package version information from numerous repositories, publishes its latest report.
- The number of supported repositories has exceeded 230. Support has been added for BunsenLabs, Pisi, Salix, Solus, T2 SDE, Void Linux, ELRepo, Mer Project, GNU Elpa and MELPA package repositories, MSYS2 (msys2, mingw), and a set of extended OpenSUSE repositories. The deprecated Rudix repository has been removed.
- Repository updates have been accelerated.
- The link availability checking system (i.e., URLs specified in packages as project homepages or links to distributions) has been reworked and moved to , with added support for availability checks over IPv6, detailed status display (), and improved diagnostics for DNS and SSL issues.
- A widely used for fast streaming parsing of large JSON files without loading them entirely into memory has also been formalized into a separate project.
Overall statistics:
- 232 repositories
- 175 thousand projects
- 2.03 million individual packages
- 32 thousand maintainers
- 49 thousand recorded releases in the past six months
- 13% of projects released at least one new version in the past six months
by total number of packages:
- AUR (46938)
- nix (45274)
- Debian and its derivatives (32629) (led by Raspbian)
- FreeBSD (26893)
- Fedora (22194)
Top repositories by number of non-unique packages (i.e., packages also present in other distributions):
- nix (39594)
- Debian and its derivatives (23715) (led by Raspbian)
- FreeBSD (21507)
- AUR (20647)
- Fedora (18844)
by number of fresh packages:
- nix (21835)
- FreeBSD (16260)
- Debian and its derivatives (15012) (led by Raspbian)
- Fedora (13612)
- AUR (11586)
by percentage of fresh packages (only for repositories with 1000 or more packages and excluding upstream collections of modules like CPAN, Hackage, PyPi):
- Ravenports (98.76%)
- nix (85.02%)
- Arch and its derivatives (84.91%)
- Void (83.45%)
- Adélie (82.88%)
Source: opennet.ru
