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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Brian Inglis <Brian DOT Inglis AT SystematicSw DOT ab DOT ca>
>>
>> This needs cross checked carefully, but these should be all the old
>> revs in current that can be moved to deleted; saving a total of:
>>                                487467 KB
> 
> I'm not sure what you are saying.  If you mean that every package
> should retain only its last version, then this is certainly not right:
> we keep some old versions for a good reason.
> 
> So here's the list of packages that I _know_ should be retained
> (explanations available upon request):
> 
> > v2gnu/em1934b.zip                1367 KB        1998-04-29
> > v2gnu/em1934d.zip                5731 KB        1997-05-03
> > v2gnu/em1934l1.zip               1400 KB        1997-10-27
> > v2gnu/em1934l2.zip               1400 KB        1997-12-29
> > v2gnu/em1934l3.zip               1338 KB        1997-10-27
> > v2gnu/em1934r1.zip               1409 KB        1997-12-29
> > v2gnu/em1934r2.zip               1412 KB        1997-10-27
> > v2gnu/em1934r3.zip               1338 KB        1997-10-27
> > v2gnu/em1934s1.zip               1419 KB        1997-12-29
> > v2gnu/em1934s2.zip                994 KB        1997-10-27
> > v2gnu/em1934s3.zip               1106 KB        1997-10-28
> > v2gnu/emacs19.README               10 KB        1998-04-29
> > v2gnu/pat21b.zip                   70 KB        1996-10-19
> > v2gnu/pat21s.zip                   87 KB        1996-10-19
> 
> I think people who ported or developed the relevant packages should
> each state what versions need to be retained and which can be deleted.
> It's not wise to clean-sweep the repository without asking them.

I see, in DJ's list, only one version of gcc that has corresponding
versions of gnat and gpc available.  Those should all be retained,
together with the corresponding g77 and g++.

We are talking about a CD, not about destroying versions, I trust.

-- 
"I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software
 design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously
 no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated
 that there are no obvious deficiencies."   --  C. A. R. Hoare