A change to how calm expires packages

Jon Turney jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Sat Jan 29 15:19:34 GMT 2022


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 I plan to change this to also expire test versions which are superseded 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.


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