[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Remove or move old packages in SVN?

Ondrej Certik ondrej at certik.cz
Sun May 11 22:05:52 UTC 2008


On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 3:06 AM, Daniel Leidert
<daniel.leidert.spam at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Some packages in the SVN are not maintained anymore or are obsoleted.
> Two examples are gnudatalangauge (maintained outside) and ufsparse.
>
> Could these be moved into an own directory (e.g. oldpkgs or oldlibs or
> similar) or be removed from the SVN? I just would like to have a better
> organizing of these 2.5GB repository. It would make it easier to check,
> which packages really need maintenance. I normally would suggest a
> top-level structure of
>
> - old (only stable/oldstable)
> - packages (in Debian)
> - wnpp (not yet in Debian/ITP)
>
> and maybe (see my other mail some days ago)
>
> - tags/{package1,package2,....}
>
> I'm just helping in this packaging group, but maybe you agree to my
> thoughts. Please feel free to comment and/or object.

Christophe is the one who started this group, so he should say what he thinks.
As to me, I'd just do exactly what you say (i.e. let you do it:).

Ondrej



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