A Historical Analysis of Debian Package Incompatibilities

Claes, Maelick; Mens, Tom; Di Cosmo, Roberto; Vouillon, Jerome

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A Historical Analysis of Debian Package Incompatibilities

Claes, Maelick; Mens, Tom; Di Cosmo, Roberto et al.

2015

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[en] software evolution; [en] software distribution; [en] repository mining; [en] empirical analysis; [en] software package; [en] Debian

Abstract :

[en] Users and developers of software distributions are often confronted with installation problems due to conflicting packages. A prototypical example of this are the Linux distributions such as Debian. Conflicts between packages have been studied under different points of view in the literature, in particular for the Debian operating system, but little is known about how these package conflicts evolve over time. This article presents an extensive analysis of the evolution of package incompatibilities, spanning a decade of the life of the Debian stable and testing distributions for its most popular architecture, i386. Using the technique of survival analysis, this empirical study sheds some light on the origin and evolution of package incompatibilities, and provides the basis for building indicators that may be used to improve the quality of package-based distributions.

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CREMMI - Modélisation mathématique et informatique

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Computer science
Electrical & electronics engineering

Author, co-author :

Claes, Maelick ; Université de Mons > Faculté des Sciences > Génie Logiciel

Mens, Tom ; Université de Mons > Faculté des Sciences > Génie Logiciel

Di Cosmo, Roberto

Vouillon, Jerome

Language :

English

Title :

A Historical Analysis of Debian Package Incompatibilities

Publication date :

30 March 2015

Event name :

IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories

Event place :

Florence, Italy

Event date :

2015

Research unit :

S852 - Génie Logiciel

Research institute :

R300 - Institut de Recherche en Technologies de l'Information et Sciences de l'Informatique
R150 - Institut de Recherche sur les Systèmes Complexes

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