good point. It should indeed be removed
must have been there for a long time before I learned about the -o option
from svn-buildpackage

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I stumbled upon
>
>    svn+ssh://
> svn.debian.org/svn/debian-science/packages/arpack/branches/upstream
>
> which is featuring 75MByte of code which is definitely not Debian
> packaging related.  This code is probably wasting useless space on
> several harddiscs of developers who have a complete checkout of Debian
> Science SVN.  I would love if we could agree to not keep this code
> inside SVN.  If there is really a need to keep upstream code the
> packaging of this software should probably be moved to Git where it
> is policy to keep upstream code anyway.
>
> I guess arpack is just an example and I would love if others would
> check their packages whether some cleanup would be possible.
>
> Kind regards
>
>        Andreas.
>
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