On 2021-03-10 21:30, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 08:44:36PM +0530, Nilesh Patra wrote: >>> 2. Vcs-* URLs in debian/control will break after moving repositories. >>> Not sure if these URLs are of any use for removed packages, though. > > That's an additional point to my argument about automatic tools parsing > the repositories. > >> It doesn't matter too much, IMHO. At any point in time if someone would >> bring those packages back to archive, they'd have to use >> s.d.o/med-team/pkg anyway. >> Plus they aren't in the archive either. URLs breaking is of more >> relevance only when they are in the archive > > True. But packages are residing in oldstable quite some time and they > reside for ever in snapshots. Besides this a package removed from > Debian can possibly survive several user machines if just upgrades from > one release to the next one is done. I think several of my boxes were > upgraded over four releases or so. If there is no conflict the packages > might reside on user machines for the life time of the machine.
This is a strong argument against moving the repositories. It convinces me that we should not do that. Best, Andrius
