On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 11:29:50PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > It is becoming increasingly painful to do QA work due to the number of > packages in unstable that have been completely broken for a long time. indeed. > So, I propose that we remove from the archive all packages that: > were in unstable at the time of the jessie freeze > AND > were not in jessie at the time of the release > AND > where in unstable at the time of the stretch freeze > AND > where not in stretch at the time of the release > AND > are still not in testing > AND > were not uploaded over the last 6 months > > > I propose the following process: > - I would file a bug against each of those packages, asking whether it > should be removed, and stating that the bug should be closed if the > package should stay in Debian. > - after a month, I would reassign/retitle the bugs that are still open > to ftp.debian.org to request the package removal. > > I don't plan to argue: if someone cares enough about the package to > close the bug, so be it. I'm totally in favor of this plan. A simple mail will except packages from removal plus even if it happened, it's trivial to reintroduce them via reuploading from snapshot.d.o. -- cheers, Holger
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