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

Hi Emmanuel,

On 2024-09-13 11:14, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the suggestion to archive. I was not aware of this Gitlab 
feature. Interestingly, I cannot find the "Archive project" action in 
Salsa for my project swagger-core [2]. Maybe I lack some permission to 
archive it?

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

[2] https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/swagger-core/edit

Best wishes,
Andrius