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

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Kevin,

Charles has just given an answer.  I'd like to know some details about
the repositories you intend to remove.

On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 11:25:51PM +1100, Kevin Murray wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 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)

In general it is fine to maintain packages in other teams.  The most
important thing is that packages are maintained properly on a high
technical level and with hopefully at least one backup maintainer.  If
this is fulfilled in DPMT feel free to simply move the repository.

However, if the packages might have a bioinformatics background and are
mentioned on our tasks pages (may be featuring citation data) it would
be good if you announce this here explicitly.  In this case I would
consider also parsing DPMT repository to scan metadata information that
might be needed on our tasks page.

> or never made it (wgsim).

Could you please be more verbose why your interest in packaging this has
stopped?  I personally see no need to remove anything just because there
is no intend to finish it at the moment.  There might be some interest
by somebody else later.  If you ask me it would be better to just add an
explanation why you stopped working on this in debian/README.Debian or
so.

> I understand that `rm -rf ./myrepo.git` has the potential to end very very
> badly.

I do not think that its to bad to remove an unneeded repository but
Charles has mentioned a less harsh option.

> Is there some safer way of removing these repositories? Or is it
> fine to have them sit there?

I think its fine to leave something even if it is not finished (as in
the wgsim case).  The metadata are used on our tasks pages and might
provide some information for other users.  Adding a reason why the
work is not continued might be another valuable information.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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