From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: "cygwin-apps@cygwin.com" <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: A change to how calm expires packages
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2022 15:19:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7081dd4b-ce5f-a08a-06cb-c01e843219d8@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84e66513-3b8f-9c77-4d60-6b816a9eea7c@dronecode.org.uk>
On 20/01/2022 14:33, Jon Turney wrote:
>
> To try to avoid packages lingering in the 'test' status indefinitely
> (which leads to them not being installed by most users, as they don't
> run setup with 'consider test packages' enabled, thus these packages
> generally aren't getting used, so having them isn't generating much
> value), I'm planning to change how calm expires packages:
>
> Currently (in the absence of configuration otherwise [1]), calm will
> retain up to 3 non-test versions, and 3 test versions, and expire all
> other versions.
>
> I plan to change this to also expire test versions which are superseded
> by a non-test version (that is: expire test versions where a non-test
> version with a higher version number exists).
>
> I believe this makes the default behaviour closer to what package
> maintainers are likely to want to happen.
This change has been deployed.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-29 15:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-20 14:33 Jon Turney
2022-01-20 16:24 ` Ken Brown
2022-01-20 17:42 ` Achim Gratz
2022-01-21 7:27 ` Brian Inglis
2022-01-21 10:11 ` Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
2022-01-29 15:19 ` Jon Turney [this message]
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