Bug#27906: PROPOSED] Binary-only NMU's

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Buddha Buck writes ("Re: Bug#27906: PROPOSED] Binary-only NMU's "):
...
> It was my understanding that one of the benefits of the "package pool" 
> reorganization of the archive was exactly that -- we would keep 
> multiple versions of packages (source and binary) around.  Older 
> versions would be reaped periodically by a garbage collection routine, 
> but most would usually hang around for a while to give people a 
> fall-back option if needed.  Multiple sources for different 
> architectures would not be reaped, since they would not be garbage.
> 
> Since we wanted to implement that idea for a number of reasons, why 
> don't we?

Interesting point, yes.  However, I think we need to fix the source
skew problem now, and it's relatively easy: fix dinstall not to delete
sources, and run a cron job occasionally to delete obsolete ones.

Ian.