As a test case, we've been asked to archive this small (for now) GitLab instance: https://gitlab.etsit.urjc.es/
We can easily find tons of other small public instances for further testing.

This is now fixed (by @vlorentz) and deployed.

is there anything left, that is blocking the deployment of this? (otherwise it seems like an easy low-hanging fruit)

Great work, thanks! I'm stopping by just to comment on this:

Speaking of which, it would be nice to have comments on all columns on all tables of all databases…

how is that "understandable"? :-)

P353 is a quick and dirty wrapper to play with licensee locally after git clone

+1 for this need, and +1 also to the initial draft by @ardumont.

In T1499#27578, @douardda wrote:

Note that I've modified the original file, so I'm not sure whether we should keep it (swh/core/api/negotiate.py) under its original MIT license (in which case the debian package's copyright file should be modified) or if we put it under the swh.core's LGPL one.

The object storage doesn't have content names, so it cannot address this feature as stated.