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Re: mass-removing packages that missed both jessie and stretch?



On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 10:07:04AM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> 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.

Yes.  They generate a lot of noise for several team, even if they are
then ignored it still takes time to look at them at least once to decide
they are to be ignored…

> > 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.

Please, go ahead with this great plan.

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