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Re: Yearly repository cleanup



On Wed, 07 Aug 2013 22:24:20 +0200, Michael Stapelberg wrote:

> Thanks for your mail. I appreciate the effort to keep our repositories
> clean.

You're welcome, and thanks for quickly looking at these two packages.
 
> gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org> writes:
> > libplack-middleware-csrfblock-perl
> > Michael Stapelberg
> > July 2012
> > TODO items in changelog
> Hm, I suppose I asked for a review and never followed up on your TODO
> items, not sure why.

I guess we all forgot about it :)

> You probably suspected it anyway, but the package for which I wanted to
> have this as a dependency in Debian is dead by now. Therefore I have no
> realistic interest in maintaining libplack-middleware-csrfblock-perl. In
> case the packaging is helpful for somebody else who ever wants to
> maintain it, it might make sense to keep it. Not sure if our systems
> allow that — in case it’s a hard thing, just delete it.

We have an attic/ directory on alioth were we put git repos of
packages that are removed from the archive, in case they are needed
later again.
Usually we don't put never-uploaded packages there, but we can do
this in this case if you think it's helpful.

> > libx11-xcb-perl
> > /me, but requested by Axel and Michael who is upstream
> > 2011 or something
> > might be ready, I'm just not sure if someone needs it, and since
> > Michael is a DD he can upload it himself :)
> By now I don’t think it’s a good idea to have this package in the
> archive. It will not get enough upstream love (I am upstream) to make it
> useful for anything except for the i3-wm testsuite. People interested in
> using it for that can just install it via cpan, which suits our
> developer community better, because it works everywhere.

Ok.

> Therefore, feel free to delete libx11-xcb-perl.

Great, will do after waiting for reactions on the other packages.

Cheers,
gregor 

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