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

[Steffen Moeller]

Hi Daniel,

Daniel Leidert wrote:

> 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

I personally think that any effort should be kept, no matter if the
package is distributed officially or not. But you are definitely right with
the 2.5G - that is far too much. To solve that, the debian-med group
only stores the debian folders and merges these with upstream. This helps
the archive a lot and should not render it overly difficult to tolerate
otherwise unmaintained packages.

Best,

Steffen