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

    From Emmanuel Bourg@21:1/5 to Andrius Merkys on Fri Sep 13 10:20:01 2024
    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

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  • From Emmanuel Bourg@21:1/5 to Andrius Merkys on Mon Sep 16 22:20:01 2024
    On 16/09/2024 09:19, Andrius Merkys wrote:

    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?

    We have the same roles on the debian-java group, so I assume the same permissions too. Did you unfold the Advanced tab on the settings page ?

    Emmanuel Bourg

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