Hi Ansgar, On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 01:08:49PM +0100, Ansgar 🐱 wrote: > I'm wondering how we can clean up suites like experimental and > unstable. They tend to slowly accumulate cruft that nobody cleans up, > including no longer installable packages. > > As a very simple start, I would like to remove packages from > experimental that haven't seen an upload for a long time (arbitrarily > chosen as before 2020-01-01 for the list below). > > What do people think about this?
Thanks for cleaning up the archive. The proposed criteria vaguely makes sense to me for experimental, but not as much for unstable. > I would also like to do something similar to unstable; maybe start with > packages uploaded before some arbitrary date that are also not included > in any of oldstable/stable/testing. These can cause problems like > wasting time to investigate cruft removals, build failures, ... > > Does that seem reasonable as well? I earlier proposed unstable removals and am now operating a semi-automatic unstable auto remover. Its semantics are as follows. Consider packages that have an rc bug in unstable that hasn't been interacted with within one year and where the package in question is not part of stable nor testing and is not a key package. For each of those packages file an important removal suggestion bug. Reassign such bugs to ftp.d.o as RM/RoQA bugs to ftp after a month of idleness. This seems to work out quite well and I removed more than 100 source packages this way. https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?user=helmutg%40debian.org&tag=sidremove Feedback welcome. For unstable, I think there is more reason to keep packages that have not been uploaded in a while - so long as they do not accumulate rc bugs. > monkeysphere | 2019-05-19 23:33:52.925219+00 I removed it from unstable, and missed experimental. Do you have any hints on how to improve the RM bug #1085868 such that experimental is also covered? > php-sabre-event | 2015-11-06 01:20:46.165676+00 I think I also removed this from unstable. Same question. Helmut
