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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/09/12 02:52, Colin Watson wrote:
> For instance (without meaning to disparage Matthias,
>    who's probably the main user of this), if populate-archive.py were
>    the only remaining thing we needed direct ftpmaster access for, then
>    it might be a reasonable tradeoff to terminate our shell access and
>    handle that by means of webops requests.

We eventually intend to use the derived distros feature to replace the
copy archive hack. It would be useful if you could evaluate it as such
and give some feedback on any shortcomings.