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<!doctype html> <html> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/static/bootstrap/bootstrap.min.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/static/css/debian.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/static/css/base.css" /> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/static/favicon.ico" /> <title>About | Debian Sources </title> </head> <body> <header id="header"> <div id="upperheader"> <div id="logo"> <a href="https://www.debian.org" title="Debian Home"><img src="/static/img/debian-50.png" alt="Debian"></a> </div>  <p class="section"><a href="/">DEBSOURCES</a></p> <div id="searchbox"> <form action="/search/" name="searchform" method="post" style="display: inline;"> <input id="query-1" name="query" placeholder="package name" required type="text" value=""> <input type="submit" value="Search package" /> </form> <form name="codesearch" method="get" action="https://codesearch.debian.net/search"> <input name="q" placeholder="code regex" type="text" /> <input type="submit" value="Search code" /> </form> </div>  </div>  <nav id="navbar"> <p class="hidecss"><a href="#content">Skip Quicknav</a></p> <ul> <li><a href="/">Home</a></li> <li><a href="/advancedsearch/">Search</a></li> <li><a href="/doc/">Documentation</a></li> <li><a href="/stats/">Stats</a></li> <li><a href="/doc/about/">About</a></li> </ul> </nav>  <p id="breadcrumbs">about</p> </header>  <div id="content"> <h2>About</h2> <h3>Development</h3> <ul> <li><strong>source code</strong> is available using <a href="http://git-scm.com/">Git</a>: <tt>git clone https://salsa.debian.org/qa/debsources.git</tt> or <tt>git clone git@salsa.debian.org:qa/debsources.git</tt> and browsable <a href="https://salsa.debian.org/qa/debsources">on the Web</a> </li> <li>please report <strong>bugs</strong> to the <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=qa.debian.org;tag=debsources">Debian Bug Tracking System</a> (short URL: <a href="http://deb.li/debsrcbugs"><tt>http://deb.li/debsrcbugs</tt></a>), against the <code>qa.debian.org</code> pseudo-package, using a subject line that begins with "debsources:". <br /> If you use the standard Debian <code>reportbug</code> tool, please use the command line: <tt>reportbug -P "User: qa.debian.org@packages.debian.org" -P "Usertags: debsources" qa.debian.org</tt> </li> <li>for discussions about Debsources please <strong>contact</strong> the <a href="https://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/qa-debsources/">debian-qa-debsources mailing list</a> or the <code>#debian-debsources</code> IRC channel on <a href="http://www.oftc.net/">OFTC</a> </li> <li>opportunities for new contributors (AKA <strong>easy hacks</strong>) are <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=qa.debian.org;include=subject:debsources;tag=newcomer">available</a> as well (short URL: <a href="http://deb.li/debsrceasy"><tt>http://deb.li/debsrceasy</tt></a>) </li> </ul> <h3>Acknowledgements</h3> <ul> <li>all Debsources <a href="https://salsa.debian.org/qa/debsources/blob/master/AUTHORS"><b>contributors</b></a> for their work</li> <li><a href="https://www.irill.org"><img style="vertical-align: middle;" src="/static/img/irill.png" alt="IRILL" /></a> for sponsoring the initial development of Debsources and providing hardware and hosting for the first 6 years of its history</li> </ul> <p><em>Thank you!</em></p> <h3>Publications</h3> <ol> <li> <a href="http://upsilon.cc/~zack/research/publications/debsources-ese-2016.pdf">[.pdf]</a> <a href="http://upsilon.cc/~zack/research/publications/debsources-ese-2016.bib">[.bib]</a> Matthieu Caneill, Daniel M. Germ谩n, Stefano Zacchiroli. <em>The Debsources Dataset: Two Decades of Free and Open Source Software</em>. In <a href="http://link.springer.com/journal/10664">Empirical Software Engineering</a>, Volume 22, <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10664-016-9461-5">pp. 1405-1437</a>, Springer. DOI <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10664-016-9461-5">10.1007/s10664-016-9461-5</a>. <br> If you use the Debsources <em>dataset</em> for research purposes, we would appreciate you cite this paper.<br>Note: this is the most up-to-date and complete paper about Debsources. </li> <li> <a href="https://upsilon.cc/~zack/research/publications/debsources-msr-2015.pdf">[.pdf]</a> <a href="https://upsilon.cc/~zack/research/publications/debsources-msr-2015.bib">[.bib]</a> Stefano Zacchiroli. <em>The Debsources Dataset: Two Decades of Debian Source Code Metadata</em>. In proceedings of <a href="http://2015.msrconf.org/">MSR 2015</a>: The 12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, <a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=7180119">pp. 466-469</a>, IEEE 2015. DOI <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MSR.2015.65">10.1109/MSR.2015.65</a>. </li> <li> <a href="https://upsilon.cc/~zack/research/publications/debsources-esem-2014.pdf">[.pdf]</a> <a href="https://upsilon.cc/~zack/research/publications/debsources-esem-2014.bib">[.bib]</a> Matthieu Caneill, Stefano Zacchiroli. <em>Debsources: Live and Historical Views on Macro-Level Software Evolution</em>. In proceedings of <a href="http://softeng.polito.it/ESEIW2014/ESEM/">ESEM 2014</a>: 8th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement. ACM 2014. DOI <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2652524.2652528">10.1145/2652524.2652528</a>. <br> If you use the Debsources <em>software</em> for research purposes, we would appreciate you cite this paper. </li> </ol> </div> <footer id="footer"> <p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; line-height: 1em;"> Browse by prefix: &ensp; <a href="/prefix/0/">0</a> <a href="/prefix/1/">1</a> <a href="/prefix/2/">2</a> <a href="/prefix/3/">3</a> <a href="/prefix/4/">4</a> <a href="/prefix/6/">6</a> <a href="/prefix/7/">7</a> <a href="/prefix/8/">8</a> <a href="/prefix/9/">9</a> <a href="/prefix/a/">a</a> <a href="/prefix/b/">b</a> <a href="/prefix/c/">c</a> <a href="/prefix/d/">d</a> <a href="/prefix/e/">e</a> <a href="/prefix/f/">f</a> <a href="/prefix/g/">g</a> <a href="/prefix/h/">h</a> <a href="/prefix/i/">i</a> <a href="/prefix/j/">j</a> <a href="/prefix/k/">k</a> <a href="/prefix/l/">l</a> <a href="/prefix/lib-/">lib-</a> <a href="/prefix/lib2/">lib2</a> <a href="/prefix/lib3/">lib3</a> <a href="/prefix/lib6/">lib6</a> <a href="/prefix/liba/">liba</a> <a href="/prefix/libb/">libb</a> <a href="/prefix/libc/">libc</a> <a href="/prefix/libd/">libd</a> <a href="/prefix/libe/">libe</a> <a href="/prefix/libf/">libf</a> <a href="/prefix/libg/">libg</a> <a href="/prefix/libh/">libh</a> <a href="/prefix/libi/">libi</a> <a href="/prefix/libj/">libj</a> <a href="/prefix/libk/">libk</a> <a href="/prefix/libl/">libl</a> <a href="/prefix/libm/">libm</a> <a href="/prefix/libn/">libn</a> <a href="/prefix/libo/">libo</a> <a href="/prefix/libp/">libp</a> <a href="/prefix/libq/">libq</a> <a href="/prefix/libr/">libr</a> <a href="/prefix/libs/">libs</a> <a href="/prefix/libt/">libt</a> <a href="/prefix/libu/">libu</a> <a href="/prefix/libv/">libv</a> <a href="/prefix/libw/">libw</a> <a href="/prefix/libx/">libx</a> <a href="/prefix/liby/">liby</a> <a href="/prefix/libz/">libz</a> <a href="/prefix/m/">m</a> <a href="/prefix/n/">n</a> <a href="/prefix/o/">o</a> <a href="/prefix/p/">p</a> <a href="/prefix/q/">q</a> <a href="/prefix/r/">r</a> <a href="/prefix/s/">s</a> <a href="/prefix/t/">t</a> <a href="/prefix/u/">u</a> <a href="/prefix/v/">v</a> <a href="/prefix/w/">w</a> <a href="/prefix/x/">x</a> <a href="/prefix/y/">y</a> <a href="/prefix/z/">z</a> &ensp; | &ensp; Browse <a href="/list/1/">by page</a> </p> <hr /> <div style="position: relative"> <p> Debsources — Copyright (C) 2011–2021, <a href="https://salsa.debian.org/qa/debsources/blob/master/AUTHORS">The Debsources developers</a>. 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