Bug#1107236: tracker.debian.org: stop showing unmaintained bullseye-backports

Hi,

On Tue, 03 Jun 2025, Simon McVittie wrote:
> As announced in 
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2024/07/msg00000.html, 
> bullseye-backports no longer accepts uploads and should not be expected to
> be up-to-date with bookworm{,-security}. I think it would make sense to
> drop it from the "versions" and "versioned links" panels on the package
> tracker at this point.

Why?

I mean it doesn't disappear from the rmadison output either, and I see
that table as a web version of "rmadison".

I typically remove tracking of such distributions when they are no
longer available on the local mirror and when jobs are failing due to
that. :-)

So arguably the question could become "why do we keep repositories that
we can't update on ftp-master.debian.org"?

> (For future branches, this happens at the same time that the base suite is 
> handed over from the security team to the LTS team, approximately 1 year 
> after the next stable release.

FWIW, the LTS team agreed with security team and release team to say that
the handover happens 3 years after the release, and no longer 1 year after
the next stable release. I guess the backports team could follow the same
logic... though to be fair, I'd prefer if DD were allowed to maintain
backports 5 years if that's their wish.

Cheers,