On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 01:08:49PM +0100, Ansgar 🐱 wrote: > I'm wondering how we can clean up suites like experimental and > unstable. They tend to slowly accumulate cruft that nobody cleans up, > including no longer installable packages. > > As a very simple start, I would like to remove packages from > experimental that haven't seen an upload for a long time (arbitrarily > chosen as before 2020-01-01 for the list below). > > What do people think about this?
This is a very good idea. > I would also like to do something similar to unstable; maybe start with > packages uploaded before some arbitrary date that are also not included > in any of oldstable/stable/testing. These can cause problems like > wasting time to investigate cruft removals, build failures, ... > > Does that seem reasonable as well? This one deserves some discussion but is also a good idea. It was also proposed recently in https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2024/08/msg00298.html -- WBR, wRAR
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