2010/1/15 Anderson Lizardo <[email protected]>: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Ed Bartosh <[email protected]> wrote: >> 2010/1/15 Simon Pickering <[email protected]>: >>> >>>> > I think the interface Niels writes will give the developers >>>> > more control so >>>> > some of the control issues will be mitigated. >>> >>> Allowing developers to remove old versions of their packages would be >>> the best plan for cleaning up imo >> I really doubt that. From my point of view it's better to do clean it >> up automatically. >> Why to bother developers if trivial script can do this job faster and >> much better? > > I don't know if you saw my e-mail saying that some of PyMaemo's newest > Python bindings (e.g. python-location) are *only* in extras-devel > because no package in extras-testing uses it yet and therefore there > is no version in -testing. Note that does not mean that some developer > is not already using these packages but have not uploaded their > application yet. > > We also have some newer versions of the bindings "waiting" to be > pushed to -testing by some application explicitly depending on that > version. The problem is, if no current application developer has a > specific need for these newer versions, they will stay in extras-devel > for a long time still. > > What would happen if -devel is automatically purged? Will we have to > re-upload packages every time this happens? How are application > developers writing their applications (not yet pushed to any > repository) supposed to use any of the new bindings in -devel if they > might disappear at any time? > > Suggestions are welcome, > -- It depends on how automatic cleaning is implemented. If it's implemented properly everything will be OK :) I don't want to go to boring details right now. Just wanted to emphasize my opinion: cleaning should be automatic. Otherwise we'll have the same situation as now. May be just a bit better, may be even worse. At least we should try to do that. Considering manual cleaning as an option from the very beginning is bad thing, I believe.
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