Re: New delegation for Debian Archive Operations Team
Hi Adrian,
Am Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 11:04:17AM +0100 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:
> thanks a lot to everyone involved helping to improve the situation with the FTP team!
You mean the Archive team? ;-)
> On Sun, 2025-10-26 at 12:08 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > Task Description
> > ----------------
> >
> > The Debian Archive Operations Team oversees and maintains the well-being
> > of Debian's official package repositories. Team members are responsible
> > for tasks including:
> >
> > * Operating the archive and maintaining its infrastructure (e.g. tools
> > for processing uploads, moving packages across suites).
> >
> > * Supporting other DPL Delegates in the execution of their delegated
> > tasks.
> >
> > * Managing packagages handled byhand currently.
> >
> > * Removing packages when requested or required, whether as part of
> > routine maintenance or in exceptional circumstances.
> >
> > * Maintaining package state and archive structure via priority and
> > section override files.
> >
> > * Maintaining the software used to run the archive, namely the Debian
> > Archive Kit (dak).
> >
> > * Documenting the team's key processes, especially those related to
> > releases, to support transparency and contributor involvement.
>
> I'm missing a statement regarding the maintenance of architectures in the main archive.
>
> This particular topic seems to have been neglected in the past months a bit with
> architectures that are scheduled for removal (armel, mips64el) and architectures
> scheduled for inclusion (loong64) have not seen any activity in the archive so far
> despite previously made announcements.
Good catch. I've updated the text that may serve as the basis for a
future delegation[1] with the following change:
--- delegation 2025-10-26 11:57:58.304991146 +0100
+++ new_delegation 2025-10-30 13:51:50.796312574 +0100
@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@
* Removing packages when requested or required, whether as part of
routine maintenance or in exceptional circumstances.
+ * Coordinating the inclusion, maintenance, and removal of architectures
+ in the Debian archive, in close collaboration with the Release Team,
+ buildd maintainers, and relevant porting teams.
+
* Maintaining package state and archive structure via priority and
section override files.
The delegation texts are maintained publicly in Git -- patches and merge
requests are always welcome.
> Do you know what the current time frame is and can we expect some movement in the
> near future?
That depends on the Archive team. If there are people interested in
helping to move these topics forward -- whether working on
architecture-related changes or other archive tasks -- please reach out.
I'll be glad to update the delegation to include new active members.
Kind regards
Andreas.
[1] https://salsa.debian.org/debian-dpl/dpl-helpers/-/commit/21c16629630b486ac7432cded0f83fd878bdedc5
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