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The following changes have taken place as of today's daily archive run. (1) Experimental is dead, long live experimental. As mentioned in an earlier email, I've cleaned a lot of the cruft out of experimental. What remains has been migrated to the pool and the old (horrible) setup of project/experimental has been replaced with a proper per-component+per-architecture setup like all the other real distributions. Anyone using experimental will have to update their apt/dpkg-ftp/whatever configuration file to cope. (No, I'm not going to give an example, as I have no desire to encourage careless use of experimental.) There's also been a couple of other changes to experimental; namely a) experimental now uses unstable's override file, so anyone can upload an experimental version of a package already in unstable without the need to wait for NEW processing; similarly, a package can be moved from experimental to unstable without NEW processing. b) [not yet implemented] experimental packages now have to be newer than their counterparts (if any) in unstable. This allows me to auto-clean experimental and keep the cruft problem under control. If anyone objects violently, now would be the time to do so as I haven't implemented this yet. (2) Proposed-updates is not dead [but I'd very much like it to be] The contents of proposed-updates have been migrated to the pool. Although I'd very much like to kill p-u in it's current form, I can't do that without breaking people's apt/dpkg-ftp/whatever setups so I've left it as is for now. However, fair warning, on woody's release, p-u will die in it's current form and be reincarnated as a proper distribution (just like experimental). This will obviously require updating whatever documentation refers to p-u, but I guess that can be sorted out closer to the time. (3) project/orphaned proclaimed moribund; removal imminent project/orphaned is IMO not a dreadfully useful thing. I don't see the need for us (and the mirror network) to carry this cruft. If anyone wants the source for a removed package they can always get it from a) stable, b) archive.debian.org or c) the relevant 'removed' directory on ftp-master.d.o or non-us.d.o. Basically implementing project/orphaned support in the new pools removal script would be non-trivial and I don't particularly want to spend time on it. NB: none of the scripts used since I joined ftpmaster had support for p/o either, so it has effectively been unused for the last 3 years or so. So anyway, as soon as I get round to it, project/orphaned is going to disappear off mirrors. It won't be deleted (if I can avoid it, I never delete anything), and will be available on ftp-master.d.o for anyone who needs to resurrect something from it. - -- James -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.4 and Gnu Privacy Guard <http://www.gnupg.org/> iEYEARECAAYFAjqFwP4ACgkQgD/uEicUG7BXEwCeJAcCFKjo/Qa7hRk81QMyqSNb Ei4An3rIch9K1DJGdRigj24zliGvzO7I =Fk+e -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
