[csw-maintainers] Packages age

[Philip Brown]

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 10:26:24PM +0100, William Bonnet wrote:
> >> Year    Total      Delta
> >>....
> >> 2004    107          0
> >> 2005    176         -3
> >> 2006    200         -2
> >> 2007    188        -11
> >> 2008    386        -28
> >> 2009    142        +78
>....
> Total is the number of packages created in a given year. This is based 
> on the creation date from the ,REV= field
> Delta is the difference between current month (Feb) and previous one 
> (Jan). This is not a yearly based delta.

So, does that mean an estimate of only BRAND NEW packages, or
"packages that received updates" as well?

Also, I think that depending on the REV field may miss quite a few. since
not all packages historically had REV fields ;-)