On Sun, May 03, 2020 at 09:39:51AM +0300, Sergei Golovan wrote:
> Today, I've got an autoremoval mails for erlang and a whole bunch of related
> packages because of #958841 (see [1] for details).
>
> Is it really necessary to remove erlang and all its reverse dependencies,
> while it's elixir-lang which is the culprit?
Well, that bug is assigned to *both* erlang and erlang-elixir, and in
fact, the fix was done in erlang, so it really much looks like an erlang
bug?
Now, it seems that wasn't enough, since erlang-elixir still doesn't pass
its autopkgtest with the new erlang; worse, it makes elixir-lang
uninstallable.
> As far as I can see, removal
> of all erlang related packages (which includes elixir-lang) should lead to
> moving them back except for elixir-lang which is now uninstallable.
What do you mean with "moving back"?
> On the other hand, just removing elixir-lang from testing achieves the same
> outcome without removing/moving back many packages.
The autoremoval is quite confusing (perhaps actually buggy?) when bugs
are assigned against multiple packages. In fact, only erlang is being
autoremoved, elixir-lang is being removed only due to being a rdep of
erlang.
Please read with more attention the text of the bug:
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=958841
| Due to the nature of this issue, I filed this bug report against
| both packages. Can you please investigate the situation and reassign the
| bug to the right package?
I'm confident that if you reassign this bug to erlang only (and properly
changing the 'found', 'fixed' and 'done' values), nothing
would be autoremoved, simply because that bug won't affect erlang in
testing anymore.
Lastly, I recommend you just don't spend too much time on understanding
the autorm situation, rather just fix whatever is broken and make
elixir-lang pass the autopkgtest again; the autorm date is more than a
month away after all.
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