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[Karl Fogel <karl.fogel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Max Bowsher <maxb@xxxxxxx> writes:
> I think we should remove the people.canonical.com/~herb/ tarball.
>
> 1) It's of db-devel, not devel. Not what a beginner developer wants.
>
> 2) It's a standalone tree, not a shared repository plus branch, as is
> customary for LP development.
>
> 3) It's badly affected by early 2a fragmentation, a modern bzr version
> packs that repository down from 219MB to 150MB.
>
> 4) It ships a working tree, if the goal is to minimize download size,
> that's counterproductive.
>
> 5) It's sufficiently out of date at this point that you still have ~25MB
> to pull it up to date.
>
> Alternatively we could rectify all of the above and republish it.

IMHO, we should remove it simply because it will be ongoing complexity
if we don't.  I think we need to ask ~herb to do that :-), CC'ing
herb...

-Karl