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As part of their archive maintenance role, the ftp-master team periodically (usually every few days) run a tool which searches for packages that should be removed. This tool used to be known as "rene" (and is still often referred to as such) but has now become the "auto-cruft" sub-command of dak. |
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The ftp-master team only process removals from the unstable and experimental distributions. The table below summarises the relevant contact points for requesting removals from other distributions. || '''Distribution''' || '''Contact''' || || [http://www.debian.org/releases/testing testing] || Release Managers [[mailto:debian-release@lists.debian.org debian-release@lists.debian.org]] || || [http://www.debian.org/releases/stable stable] || Stable Release Managers [[mailto:debian-release@lists.debian.org debian-release@lists.debian.org]] || || oldstable || Not possible || |
Package removal requests
Do you need to request removal?
As part of their archive maintenance role, the ftp-master team periodically (usually every few days) run a tool which searches for packages that should be removed. This tool used to be known as "rene" (and is still often referred to as such) but has now become the "auto-cruft" sub-command of dak.
Removals from testing, stable and oldstable
The ftp-master team only process removals from the unstable and experimental distributions.
The table below summarises the relevant contact points for requesting removals from other distributions.
Distribution |
Contact |
[http://www.debian.org/releases/testing testing] |
Release Managers mailto:debian-release@lists.debian.org debian-release@lists.debian.org |
Stable Release Managers mailto:debian-release@lists.debian.org debian-release@lists.debian.org |
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oldstable |
Not possible |
Before requesting removal
How to request removal
File a bug against the [http://bugs.debian.org/ftp.debian.org ftp.debian.org pseudo-package]. The ftp-masters do not take account of the severity of the bug reported when processing removals, so if you believe the request to be "important" then simply provide appropriate reasoning in the report.
The subject line of the bug report
Wibble
> is there a comprehensive list of how to title requests against > ftp.debian.org? Perhaps we could make one on wiki.debian.org
It's one of those things that nobody seems to have found the appropriate tuits for. I think about doing it every so often but then get distracted; Jeroen has talked about documenting the format in the past (hence the Cc). I'm also not entirely sure whether such documentation belongs somewhere more "official" (e.g. 5.9.2 of the Developer's Reference) as there's more information that should probably be written down somewhere relating to removals - e.g. "if the package is still listed in debian/control then you'll just get the bug reassigned to the package, requesting that gets fixed first".
Likewise, the ?DevRef section might want to expand on the comments on "testing" removal (as there's no point asking ftpmaster for such removals) and a mention of "rene" so that maintainers know they don't need to request removals for source packages no longer building any binaries, etc.
The syntax is basically
RM: <source package> <architecture> -- <reasons>
where:
<architecture> is of the form "[arch(| arch)*]" and should be omitted
unless
- you're requesting a partial removal (i.e. only removing the binaries for
some
- architectures, as in this case)
and
<reasons> approximately corresponds to the list at the head of http://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.txt, plus comments
Adam