Re: What do we do with removed packages on salsa?

Hi Andrius,

On 12/09/2024 09:26, Andrius Merkys wrote:

> Recently I had one of my packages removed from unstable. I would like to 
> know what is the team's practice of dealing with repositories of such 
> packages on salsa. I saw that some other teams have sub-namespaces like 
> /attic/ for packaging repositories of removed packages in order to 
> preserve them for future reference.

I agree that the repositories should be preserved. I don't see the 
benefit of moving the repositories to a different namespace though, it 
induce an additional maintenance burden and invalidates the Vcs-* 
fields. An alternative would be to flag the repositories with a Gitlab 
topic or archive them [1], ideally in an automatic manner.

Emmanuel Bourg

[1] 
https://salsa.debian.org/help/user/project/working_with_projects#archive-a-project