Re: What does Transition Status "uknown" mean?
Hi,
On 04/07/2012 08:32 PM, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
>
> So does Unknown really mean "neither Good nor Bad"?
>
Yes.
> In the case of Boost, much of the package is header-only libraries,
> so the Good and Bad categories do not apply. How is a transition
> managed when most of the dependencies are Unknown? Are the Unknowns
> mainly ignored and transition is declared done when there are no
> longer any Bad packages?
>
Yes, almost. Packages marked "unknown" do not influence the migration.
We tend to ignore them most of the time (I beleive), but we check if
those package have been built recently to know whether we should binNMU
them for the transition. But sometimes, a packages is wrongly marked as
"unknown" (it could be a bug in the transition tracker itself, a wrong
good/bad criteria). Those should be reported so that we have a better
picture of the transition.
Regards,
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