[Debian-med-packaging] Removing git repos on git.debian.org

[Charles Plessy]

Le Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 11:25:51PM +1100, Kevin Murray a écrit :
> 
> What's the procedure for removing entire git repositories on git.debian.org?
> There are a couple I have created that will either be moved to another team
> (some python modules that the DPMT wants me to maintain under DPMT) or never
> made it (wgsim). Note that none of these repos contain packages that are in the
> archive, of course.
> 
> I understand that `rm -rf ./myrepo.git` has the potential to end very very
> badly. Is there some safer way of removing these repositories? Or is it
> fine to have them sit there?

Hi Kevin,

maybe you can keep the repository while deleting the files or adding a Debian changelog
entry to ensure it is not used by accident, and also add a README.status file at the root.

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMedQAWorkflow#README.status

Cheers,

Charles

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Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan