tests.r-b.o/debian: archiving buster and bullseye

[Holger Levsen]

On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 07:00:16PM +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 05:15:50PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > Tomorrow I intend to also disable testing Debian bullseye which
> > development ceased in August 2021.
> I disagree with this: I believe we should at least keep testing until
> oldstable is handed over to the LTS team and the Release Team will stop
> touching it (which I believe will happen around the next Summer).

why? I'm not advocating deleting this data.

> > I also doubt that those olds results are useful today more than
> > "very rarely".
> "very rare" is still reasonable, considering the resources, IMHO.

I should have written "I also doubt those old results are useful today at all".
 
> After all, we have already seen people randomly use our data in random
> papers, in way that we were not thinking about.  I don't think we need
> to make this type of work, that is not our work, harder than it needs to
> be.

right, but there are maintenance costs keeping the oldstable suite
around, including human h01ger work. And there's zero development
happening on oldstable. I really dont see the point.

> > Like for stretch, the results will stay in the postgresql database,
> > and I will also backup the generated diffoscope diffs, though on
> > a different host.
> That's already done, but the old data are still on jenkins.  what were
> you thinking about?  I don't think the stretch tarball takes too much
> space?

we are constantly low on diskspace, even 5gb matters. and 5gb*3 is 15gb.


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