On 05-Sep-20 13:41, Raphaël Hertzog wrote: > Alioth is running out of space and that's mostly because of the > debian-ppc64 archive. > > Please use the alioth project for what it is: a project coordination > place. Not a Debian repository. > > Please remove the archive and host it somewhere else. You should keep > only what's useful to start helping : > - failed build logs > - patches > > Please act promply and reply to us or we'll arbitrarily remove a part of > it so that we have again a bit of free space.
Hello Raphaël, I just freed about 25 GB of disk space on alioth. That space was occupied by the old amd64/gcc-4.0 archive which was used to prepare the Debian transition from gcc-3.3 to gcc-4.0. Now that the transition to gcc-4.0 is almost complete, that archive will no longer be necessary for any purpose. Generally, alioth has been used to host full Debian repositories for a long time now. The various amd64 repositories have been hosted on alioth from the beginning of 2004 until a few month ago and the ppc64 repository has been hosted on alioth since December 2004. The request for the debian-ppc64 alioth project explicitly stated that a binary package repository for native ppc64 packages would be created. I understand from your mail that the policy for alioth projects has changed since then. I currently have no other place to host a public archive for the native 64-bit Debian-ppc64 port. Because of this, I did not yet delete the debian-ppc64 archive from alioth as you requested. I hope that someone has an idea what to do with the debian-ppc64 archive and that alioth can host it until a better solution is found. The ppc64 archive currently has a size of about 30 GB, but I will probably be able reduce this to about 15 GB by dropping old package versions. Hopefully this will be acceptable. Regards Andreas Jochens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
