Package removal:

1. Add PACKAGES.in entry such as:

Package: xxx
X-CRAN-Comment: Removed on 2025-09-04 at the maintainer's request.


2. Move content

  mkdir ~cranadmin/Removed/xxx
  mv /srv/www/cran/src/contrib/xxx_*.tar.gz ~cranadmin/Removed/xxx/
  mv /srv/www/cran/src/contrib/Archive/xxx ~cranadmin/Removed/xxx/Archive

3. Remove web area

 rm /srv/www/cran/web/dcmeta/xxx.xml
 rm -rf /srv/www/cran/web/packages/xxx

4. Run 

 CRAN-package-list -f.