[Debian-med-packaging] discussion: removal of packages from repository

[Andreas Tille]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 10:13:04PM +0100, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Nov 2011, Andreas Tille wrote:
> >Yep.  So let's wait for the next case and do some more productive stuff.
> 
> Ok, here it comes. Maybe the old subject was not that appealing.

Thanks for keeping it alive.

> The question is: In case a package has been removed from Debian, is
> there any need to keep it in the repository? Or is it sufficient to
> just create a README.status and purge the rest?

To avoid missunderstandings: Thorsten was asking whether to keep it in
the SVN/Git repository (not the Debian package repository where the
package in question was removed from). 

The question is whether our SVN/Git should at least reflect the latest
packaging status (which could be restored in two ways by either checking
out a specified revision or using snapshots.d.o) or just clean up
everything.  An example is given in:

   svn://svn.debian.org/svn/debian-med/trunk/packages/molphy/trunk

where Thorsten decided to just keep README.status.  We will have the
next case soonish once the denoiser package is removed (I asked for
removal because this code is now included in qiime).

What do you think?

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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