Hi, I also like us to remove more broken and unused packages from unstable.
On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 11:20:10AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> Maybe we could also reduce the cost of removals for users and potential
> new maintainers, by improving the information provided in various places
> on how to get the latest source and binary packages that were in Debian
> (pointing to snapshot.debian.org).
>
> Things to look at:
> - messages sent to the BTS when closing bugs for removed packages
> - tracker.debian.org
YES, to all of the quoted stuff above. The BTS removal bug for that
package should have a pointer to snapshot.d.o with the last sources
as well as instructions how to reopen all bugs which were closed by
the package removal.
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cheers,
Holger
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