Re: Disk usage on alioth. What to do?
2009/12/14 Jon Dowland <jon+debian-devel-games@alcopop.org>:
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:11:32AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
>> Actually I don't really see the need for keeping
>> in-progress tarballs. All of our packages should have a
>> watch file or get-orig-source debian/rules target so
>> downloading from upstream should be fine.
>
> On IRC, there was some objection to breaking the
> svn-buildpackage svn-bp:origUrl behaviour. However, for
> upstream versions that have a web-accessible archive
> elsewhere, we could just update the property URL (not sure
> if that works for old revisions).
>
> If we do decide to abandon the use of alioth as a canonical
> location for all tarballs (and I think we probably should),
> we must ensure to update
> <http://wiki.debian.org/Games/VCS/svn#UploadingtheSourceTarball>
Could we change the removed files with an http redirection to the
Debian Repository?
Miry
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