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.
