From: tille@debian.org 
  
 Hi Adrian, 
  
 Am Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 11:04:17AM +0100 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: 
 > thanks a lot to everyone involved helping to improve the situation with the 
 FTP team! 
  
 You mean the Archive team? ;-) 
  
 > On Sun, 2025-10-26 at 12:08 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: 
 > > Task Description 
 > > ---------------- 
 > > 
 > > The Debian Archive Operations Team oversees and maintains the well-being 
 > > of Debian's official package repositories. Team members are responsible 
 > > for tasks including: 
 > > 
 > >  * Operating the archive and maintaining its infrastructure (e.g. tools 
 > >    for processing uploads, moving packages across suites). 
 > > 
 > >  * Supporting other DPL Delegates in the execution of their delegated 
 > >    tasks. 
 > > 
 > >  * Managing packagages handled byhand currently. 
 > > 
 > >  * Removing packages when requested or required, whether as part of 
 > >    routine maintenance or in exceptional circumstances. 
 > > 
 > >  * Maintaining package state and archive structure via priority and 
 > >    section override files. 
 > > 
 > >  * Maintaining the software used to run the archive, namely the Debian 
 > >    Archive Kit (dak). 
 > > 
 > >  * Documenting the team's key processes, especially those related to 
 > >    releases, to support transparency and contributor involvement. 
 > 
 > I'm missing a statement regarding the maintenance of architectures in the 
 main archive. 
 > 
 > This particular topic seems to have been neglected in the past months a bit 
 with 
 > architectures that are scheduled for removal (armel, mips64el) and 
 architectures 
 > scheduled for inclusion (loong64) have not seen any activity in the archive 
 so far 
 > despite previously made announcements. 
  
 Good catch.  I've updated the text that may serve as the basis for a 
 future delegation[1] with the following change: 
  
  
 --- delegation  2025-10-26 11:57:58.304991146 +0100 
 +++ new_delegation      2025-10-30 13:51:50.796312574 +0100 
 @@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ 
   * Removing packages when requested or required, whether as part of 
     routine maintenance or in exceptional circumstances. 
  
 + * Coordinating the inclusion, maintenance, and removal of architectures 
 +   in the Debian archive, in close collaboration with the Release Team, 
 +   buildd maintainers, and relevant porting teams. 
 + 
   * Maintaining package state and archive structure via priority and 
     section override files. 
  
  
 The delegation texts are maintained publicly in Git -- patches and merge 
 requests are always welcome. 
  
  
 > Do you know what the current time frame is and can we expect some movement 
 in the 
 > near future? 
  
 That depends on the Archive team. If there are people interested in 
 helping to move these topics forward -- whether working on 
 architecture-related changes or other archive tasks -- please reach out. 
  
 I'll be glad to update the delegation to include new active members. 
  
 Kind regards 
    Andreas. 
  
  
 [1] https://salsa.debian.org/debian-dpl/dpl-helpers/-/commit/21c 
 6629630b486ac7432cded0f83fd878bdedc5 
  
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