Re: List of deletion candidates

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost> writes:

>> Am 02.02.2024 um 14:04 schrieb pin <voidpin%protonmail.com@localhost>:
>> 
>> I would like to remove these.
>> If no objections, this will happen no sooner then Feb. 16
>
> Channeling my inner gdt@ — if I may ask: why do you want to remove them? Do they fail to build? Do they have vulnerabilities?

Heh!  I am glad I waited to read the next message!

> We usually don’t delete packages just because they appear abandoned. We have had packages that had no commits for a lot more time than that.
>
> So if these are still useful to someone and do not cause other issues, I am against removing them.

My reaction was that these "last commit" dates were all really recent.


I wonder if voidpin@ believes that it is highly likely that there are
zero users.    To me, that's the reason to gc a package (that isn't
really causing trouble).