Re: Remove ancient uploads from experimental (and later unstable)
* Andreas Metzler <ametzler@bebt.de> [241231 06:59]:
> On 2024-12-29 Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de> wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 01:08:49PM +0100, Ansgar 🐱 wrote:
> [...]
> >> I would also like to do something similar to unstable; maybe start with
> >> packages uploaded before some arbitrary date that are also not included
> >> in any of oldstable/stable/testing. These can cause problems like
> >> wasting time to investigate cruft removals, build failures, ...
>
> >> Does that seem reasonable as well?
>
> > I earlier proposed unstable removals and am now operating a
> > semi-automatic unstable auto remover. Its semantics are as follows.
>
> > Consider packages that have an rc bug in unstable that hasn't been
> > interacted with within one year and where the package in question is not
> > part of stable nor testing and is not a key package. For each of those
> > packages file an important removal suggestion bug. Reassign such bugs to
> > ftp.d.o as RM/RoQA bugs to ftp after a month of idleness. This seems to
> > work out quite well and I removed more than 100 source packages this
> > way.
> > https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?user=helmutg%40debian.org&tag=sidremove
> > Feedback welcome.
> [...]
>
> Good morning,
>
> I think this needs a mechanism fo excempt packages which are kept
> out of testing *intentionally* with a dummy rc bug (like firefox's
> #817954).
Thats this usertag:
https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?user=helmutg@debian.org&tag=sidremove-ignore
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