Andreas, I am for this cleanup.
Best regards C. On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote: > thanks for the clarification. However, my question had a more general > part: Is it OK to simply delete upstream code of *any* package I might > stumble upon from our SVN in case I would stumble upon it = I can safely > assume it is there rather by accident? > > I would really like to do so without asking maintainer / list because > usually this code can simply be restored either from upstream or from > spnapshot.debian.org - so no real harm should be caused, thought. If a > maintainer has really good reasons to keep this code I would suggest > droping a file "README.Status" in the branch/ dir to inform others about > this fact. >

