Comment 18 for bug 316858

On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 09:01:26AM -0000, Martin Pool wrote:
> So if I understand correctly, the old versions are kept around forever
> in the Librarian, but the quota only applies to the files referenced by
> the archive? That seems kind of odd. They're still costing us disk
> space, so I think we should certainly make them accessible.

For the record, we're also working on cleaning out old versions from the
Librarian. So we are indeed concerned with disk space.

Keeping a set of old versions is not a bad idea, having said that. I was
thinking that one way of solving this would be increasing the stay of
execution time to something longer. For how long would you want
this version to hang around, Martin?

Another option would be to change the policy for removing superseded
packages; for instance, always keeping one superseded version of the
package around.