On 20/01/2022 14:33, Jon Turney wrote:
To try to avoid packages lingering in the 'test' status indefinitely
(which leads to them not being installed by most users, as they don't
run setup with 'consider test packages' enabled, thus these packages
generally aren't getting used, so having them isn't generating much
value), I'm planning to change how calm expires packages:
Currently (in the absence of configuration otherwise [1]), calm will
retain up to 3 non-test versions, and 3 test versions, and expire all
other versions.
I plan to change this to also expire test versions which are superseded
by a non-test version (that is: expire test versions where a non-test
version with a higher version number exists).
I believe this makes the default behaviour closer to what package
maintainers are likely to want to happen.
This change has been deployed.
