Less cruft for a better release
Now that Squeeze is frozen, and release date is approaching, removing unused and buggy packages from the archive is a nice task to save maintenance burden which often involves several people (QA guys and Release Managers, mostly).
A lot of removal bugs are coming to ftp.debian.org pseudo-package, so I’d like to thank fellow contributors who spent part of their time on this task. A special thank goes to Moritz Muehlenhoff, who filed tons of bugs, and contributed to remove a lot of unused packages.
If you’re interested too, you could look at these guidelines.
Keep up the good work, guys!
Kranz Korner 
Maybe these removals should be automated? Autoremove any leaf package that is orphaned for more than 3 months or has RC bugs that have been open for more than 3 months. First remove them from testing and then 1 month later from unstable.
Paul Wise
13/09/2010 at 02:29
[…] el trabajo de señalar los bugs de borrado para el pseudo paquete http://ftp.debian.org a los efectos de limpiar el archivo de los paquetes inutilizados o no funcionales del archivo en previsión de la salida próxima de Debian […]
Noticias del Proyecto Debian – 21 de septiembre 2010 | Gustavo Pimentel's GNU/Linux Blog
21/09/2010 at 19:42