On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 09:50:27PM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 06:34 +0900, Iustin Pop wrote: > > Not sure where else to send this… but while checking for a small upload > > I did I saw some very old files on incoming. If you check sorted by > > date, http://incoming.debian.org/?C=M;O=A, you'll see some very old > > things (1997, 2003, 2007, etc…). > > > > Their size is not big, but seems… unclean to not remove failed uploads > > (which I presume they are) after a while. > > They're not. They're part of (or at least associated with) very recent > uploads, and their being there is a Good Thing[tm], as it means > incoming.d.o contains source for the binaries provided there. > > The 1997 file, for instance, is xloadimage_4.1.orig.tar.gz, sitting > alongside xloadimage_4.1-16.3_*.deb for several architectures.
Aaaah, I see. Thanks for the explanation! I should have realised this is the case from the fact that only orig.tar.gzs have such old dates. (which also means: we can still build upstream software from more than one decade ago? nice! even if patched…) > [Also note that the public HTTP-exported view of incoming.d.o has been > little more than a link tree for some time now (since the introduction > of "install-direct-from-unchecked-to-projectb" iirc) rather than the > "accepted files not yet in the archive" it once was.] Ah, I'm not familiar with that change, so thanks again for the information. iustin
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