• delayed package removal from testing

    From Jonas Smedegaard@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 28 11:50:02 2021
    Hi release team,

    I wonder why debian-parl was removed from testing today, since (as I understand it) the reason for removal was solved 2 days ago.

    Not complaining - I know it should only be a matter of few days be
    getting re-added automatically - my concern is if something similar
    happens during freeze as that would then require manual intervention
    from you at a time where you are already quite busy.

    Is there perhaps some spell I could have thrown when uploading a known close-to-deadline package? E.g. the trick of posting something to a
    bugreport to reset its timer?


    Kind regards,

    - Jonas

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  • From Paul Gevers@21:1/5 to Jonas Smedegaard on Sun Nov 28 14:10:02 2021
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    Hi Jonas,

    On 28-11-2021 11:41, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
    I wonder why debian-parl was removed from testing today, since (as I understand it) the reason for removal was solved 2 days ago.

    parl-desktop-eu in testing at the time of removal had a dependency on iitalian. It's iitalian that has an RC bug. The only way to remove
    iitalian from testing was to also remove reverse dependencies.

    Is there perhaps some spell I could have thrown when uploading a known close-to-deadline package? E.g. the trick of posting something to a bugreport to reset its timer?

    Pinging the RC bug that's causing the removal is indeed the way to delay
    the removal (mind you, there's some delay between updating a bug and the removal script being aware of the ping, so don't wait till the last
    moment). In this case slightly inappropriate as the bug is in another
    package, but we don't have anything better.

    Paul


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  • From Jonas Smedegaard@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 28 15:40:01 2021
    Quoting Paul Gevers (2021-11-28 14:09:22)
    On 28-11-2021 11:41, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
    I wonder why debian-parl was removed from testing today, since (as I understand it) the reason for removal was solved 2 days ago.

    parl-desktop-eu in testing at the time of removal had a dependency on iitalian. It's iitalian that has an RC bug. The only way to remove
    iitalian from testing was to also remove reverse dependencies.

    Ah, right - makes sense.

    (silly me - what did I even expect should have happened instead?)


    Is there perhaps some spell I could have thrown when uploading a
    known close-to-deadline package? E.g. the trick of posting
    something to a bugreport to reset its timer?

    Pinging the RC bug that's causing the removal is indeed the way to
    delay the removal (mind you, there's some delay between updating a bug
    and the removal script being aware of the ping, so don't wait till the
    last moment). In this case slightly inappropriate as the bug is in
    another package, but we don't have anything better.

    Right. I was aware that the underlying issue was in iitalian. I began preparing an NMU but then realized that upstream project is dead since
    years so maybe better to let the package die as well. That's all why I
    chose to not ping the bug.


    Thanks again for the explanation.

    - Jonas

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