Could you clean up a little, please?

[Gerfried Fuchs]

	Hi!

* Stephen Gran <sgran at debian.org> [2009-12-05 19:11:40 CET]:
> sg at alioth:~$ sudo du -sh /srv/alioth.debian.org/chroot/home/groups/pkg-games/
> 23G /srv/alioth.debian.org/chroot/home/groups/pkg-games/
> 
> Do you really need that much space?

 Who needs something anyway. ;)  But, given that most of the tarballs
that we keep there are now in stabile (which TTBOMK has backup too so
that it won't fall into the snapshot.debian.net pit again) I guess we
can savely remove the tarballs from there. It's just that the svn
approach we used referenced the orig tarballs from there, and removing
them would break that reference. Not big deal though, it's rather
uncommon that one tries to build old sources out of svn.

> I see multiple versions of some of the tarballs,

 That shouldn't happen, I'm currently creating me a list of checksums of
the files to find such duplications, expect at least them to be gone
soonish.

> hopefully at least the older ones can go for those.

 We hope so too, see above. On a sidenote, many of them needed a
repacking from upstream because of licensing issues on special artwork
in the packages and thus a reference to upstream isn't sufficient (and
often they don't keep older versions neither).

> Although alioth does have a reasonable amount of disk space, it is
> sadly still finite, and your project is currently using about 8% of it
> just in your group home.

 That's although not totally unexpected - games data is rather expected
to be the biggest usage of space. Maybe one day we'll have
data.debian.org ready to use, but for the time being I hope you can
understand that we don't want to throw away stuff that is next to
impossible or at least pretty hard to reproduce once it is gone.

 So long, and thanks for your concerns!
Rhonda