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Currently there's quite some duplication in various home repositories and also some of that packages are just dead corps that just waste time & build cycles.

Therefore I would like to suggest to set up OBS to send an automatically generated email to all people maintaining a package in their home: as soon as it becomes available in a public (read non home:) repository.

Something like:

Hello.

This is an automatically generated email which you are receiving because you currently have a package FOO in your home:<username> repository at <package-url-> which is now also available in <public-repo-name> at <public-repo-url>.

Please consider removing your package and instead helping to maintain FOO at <public-repo> since it would save me valuable disk space and build cycles.

If you are unsure how to do this please have a look at http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service/Collaboration .

Sincerly yours,
your openSUSE Build Service.

IMHO there's nothing to loose since the worst case is that people simply don't do anything but quite something to win since it hopefully would lead to less broken / unused / outdated packages spread over various home: repos or they might even start on collaborating on maintaining the package in a public repository. So simply giving people a heads up might be appreciated and wont harm.

Reproducible: Always