Le Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 01:08:49PM +0100, Ansgar 🐱 a écrit : > Hi, > > 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?
Only if that does not lead to a subsequent upload of the package to be directed to the NEW queue again. This would waste way too much time. > 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? Not for some of my packages at least. As a rule do not remove packages that do not have RC bugs, even if they are barred of entering testing. Cheers, Bill.
