bug#46441: GNU ELPA feature request: host .lz archives (as well as uncompressed) for current versions

[Stefan Kangas]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>> Currently, there's no way to get a permanent link to a package version
>>> that happens to be the current one.
>
> FWIW, the situation is even worse because there's no way to get
> a permanent link at all: while we do keep some old versions, we don't
> keep them all.  Currently, the limit is set at 20, meaning that we keep
> up to 20 old versions around per package, and once we hit that limit we
> start pruning the old versions according to a heuristic that intends to
> guess which versions are more important to keep.

Why not say, in addition to the above: we never delete anything more
recent than N years or months?