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.
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cheers,
Holger
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