why are these packages in testing?

[Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>]

Hi,

I came across some strange outputs. For example:

aba@merkel:~$ madison aiksaurus
 aiksaurus | 1.0.1+cvs.2004.02.20-1 |       testing | source
 aiksaurus | 1.0.1+cvs.2004.03.15-1 |      unstable | source, alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
aba@merkel:~$

There is a current removal suggestion by vorlon:
# 20040509
# bug #241279
remove aiksaurus/1.0.1+cvs.2004.02.20-1

Why is there only the source in testing?


Similar, for libapache-mod-filter, there is:
aba@merkel:~$ madison libapache-mod-filter
libapache-mod-filter |      1.4-5 |        stable | source, alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
libapache-mod-filter |      1.4-8 |       testing | source, alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
libapache-mod-filter |      1.4-8 |      unstable | source, alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
aba@merkel:~$
but there is also a removal suggestion, and the excuses-file on
ftp-master says according to
http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=libapache-mod-filter
that this package is removed today from testing. So, why is this still
there? How many hours after the generation of the excuses list are the
packages really updated?


Cheers,
Andi
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