Hi, On 16/12/17 at 21:13 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > On 2017-07-19 23:29, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Hi, > > > > 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. > > > > I've been pondering with ignoring packages not in testing when doing > > archive rebuilds, but that's not really a good solution. > > > > 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 > > That list didn't include packages from contrib/non-free, did it? > I'm sure there has some cruft accumulated as well, but I can't find an > example quickly.
Indeed, I only covered main. > And what about experimental? We probably could do some cleanup there as > well. > > For packages in experimental but not in unstable, I'd suggest to apply > the above criteria with s/were in unstable/were in experimental( but not > in unstable)?/. > > For packages in both experimental and unstable ... hopefully the > previous cleanup run got them removed from unstable already. > > I wouldn't mind reviewing the package lists before bugs get filed. I plan to do another run at some point, but if you'd like to do that, I can publish my scripts somewhere. Lucas
