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+delete-old-debs.py
+------------------
+Script to remove old deb files from a given list
+of directories. Tree Packager builds a lot of deb files
+when running a long time. Not all of them a needed forever.
+We had a directory with over 13.000(!) deb files eating
+up 15 GiB of hard disk space. This lead to performance
+problems and problems generating the corresponding repository.
+This script enables you only leave the n-th youngest deb
+files per package in the directory. It may be used inside
+a cron job to garbage collect old package.
+
+Usage: delete-old-debs.py [options] dir ...
+
+Options:
+  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
+  -v, --verbose         verbose output
+  -d, --dry-run         don't remove the old deb files
+  -k KEEP, --keep=KEEP  number of files to keep. Default: 3