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So, after my previous entry, here's now a small list of the oldest bugs still opened in Debian BTS:

• #1555, Package: dselect, "dselect per-screen-half focus request". There is indeed no more information left in that bug and I wonder whether it is useful to keep it opened.
• #2297, Package: xterm, "xterm sometimes gets mouse-paste and RETURN keypress in wrong order". Seems reproducible and puzzling a lot of people.
• #2298, Package: trn, "trn bug with shell escaping". trn has been replaced upstream by trn4, apparently, so we're here talking about an old dusty software (installed by 44 ppl, still).
• #3175, Package: xonix, "xonix colors bad for colorblind".
• #3180, Package: linuxdoc-tools, "linuxdoc-sgml semantics and formatting problems". There is not info in this bug report about what the bug could be. To close?
• #3251, Package: acct, "accounting file corruption". Tagget upstream, wontfix. Should this be closed more than 11 years later or is someone still hoping that this is useful?

This week-end, among other things, I played a little to get the number of bugs reported overs years in the Debian BTS. Here are the results:

2007: 53337
2006: 59665
2005: 57436
2004: 62327
2003: 50836
2002: 47618
2001: 46289
2000: 27181
1999: 22448
1998: 15002
1997:  9987
1996:  4205
1995: <2158

First bug for each year:
2008: 458489 Petter Reinholdtsen -> sysqrd Closed (in unstable)
2007: 405152 Martin-Eric Racine -> myspell-lv Closed
2006: 345487 Erich Schubert -> lintian Opened
2005: 288051 Nick Sillik -> gstreamer-misc Closed
2004: 225724 Peter van Rossum -> mldonkey-server Closed
2003: 174888 Chris Garguzi -> hotkeys Closed
2002: 127270 root@ttimo.net ->libapache-mod-auth-pam Closed
2001: 80981  William Steve Applegate -> php4 Closed
2000: 53800  Hamish Moffatt -> sattrack Closed
1999: 31352  Richard Stallman -> dselect Opened LOOK THIS ONE
1998: 16350  Joey Hess -> xbase-clients Closed
1997:  6363  Andreas Jellinghaus -> mgetty-fax Closed
1996:  2158  Ian Jackson -> ncurses3.0 Closed
1995:   563  Ian Jackson -> tar Closed

A few interesting things there:

• apparently the rate is now staging between 50,000 and 60,000 per year
• stats are less precise for the early years as many bugs are no more in the BTS (apparently that stops in 1999)
• I can't find the date where the Debian BTS was launched (-devel archives go back to July 1995 only)
• It bringed me the silly idea to check what are the oldest still opened bugs...next stupid blog entry, then !

Anyone feeling like doing the same for Launchpad?

And, for those who wonder, I of course did all this by hand. No fancy automated script, just my hands and some (little) hammering of the BTS.

• Distance: 17,07km
• Temps: 105mn
• • Descente chemin de la Mare du Bois
  • Route de Maurepas aux Mousseaux
  • Rue du parc aux Loups
  • Rue de la Mauldre
  • D13
  • Le Tremblay: rue des Templiers
  • Rue du Puits d'Hiver
  • Rue de Bazoches
  • Chemin de Mareil
  • Sente de la Digue
  • Mareil le Guyon
  • D191
  • Chateau de mareil le Guyon
  • Rue du Pâtis
  • Chemin d ela croix Messire jean
  • Rue du Bout de l'Eau
  • Route du Pavillon (dir. Les Mesnuls)
  • Chemin des Gasouiuns
  • Chemin de l'Hirondelle
  • D191, dir. Les Mesnuls
  • Chemin de St-Honoré tout le long
  • Rue du Gué
  • Montée "des Escaliers"
  • Descente sur St-Réy par le GR
  • Suivre le GR dans St-Rémy
  • Descente sur le petit Etang par le GR
  • Chemin le long du bois
  • Rue du Moulin
  • Rue du Gros Chêne
  • Chemin Dassault

• Distance: 15km
• Temps: ?mn
• • Maison
  • Gare Verrière (3.5km)
  • (train)
  • Gare Meudon
  • Onera (4km)
  • et retour...