Another six months passed and the project , which regularly collects and compares information about package versions in multiple repositories, publishes another report.
- The number of supported repositories has exceeded 230. Added support for BunsenLabs, Pisi, Salix, Solus, T2 SDE, Void Linux, ELRepo, Mer Project, EMacs repositories of GNU Elpa and MELPA packages, MSYS2 (msys2, mingw), a set of extended OpenSUSE repositories. The discontinued Rudix repository has been removed.
- Update of repositories has been accelerated
- The system for checking the availability of links (i.e. URLs specified in packages as project home pages or links to distributions) has been redesigned - included in , added support for checking availability over IPv6, displaying detailed status (), improved diagnosis of problems with DNS and SSL.
- Widely used within the project, the for fast in-line parsing of large JSON files, without loading them entirely into memory.
Total stats:
- 232 repositories
- 175 thousand projects
- 2.03 million individual packages
- 32 thousand maintainers
- 49 thousand recorded releases over the past six months
- 13% of projects have released at least one new version over the past six months
by the total number of packages:
- AUR (46938)
- nix(45274)
- Debian and derivatives (32629) (Raspbian leads)
- FreeBSD (26893)
- Fedora (22194)
Top repositories by number of non-unique packages (i.e. packages also found in other distributions):
- nix(39594)
- Debian and derivatives (23715) (Raspbian leads)
- FreeBSD (21507)
- AUR (20647)
- Fedora (18844)
by the number of fresh packages:
- nix(21835)
- FreeBSD (16260)
- Debian and derivatives (15012) (Raspbian leads)
- Fedora (13612)
- AUR (11586)
by percentage of fresh packages (only for repositories with 1000 or more packages and not counting upstream collections of modules like CPAN, Hackage, PyPi):
- Ravenports (98.76%)
- nix (85.02%)
- Arch and derivatives (84.91%)
- Void (83.45%)
- AdΓ©lie (82.88%)
Source: opennet.ru