Control: reassign -1 qa.debian.org On 19-05-2022 12:37, Simon McVittie wrote:
Package: release.debian.org dkms and nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-470 currently have RC bug #1010884 triggering autoremovals (it was closed today, so maybe it will cease to be relevant soon). I would expect the only packages affected by this to be packages that specifically depend on dkms or on the NVIDIA proprietary driver.
It's a great surprise to me that this happened. I *suspect* it's due to that the fact that the bug you mentioned is assigned to both a key package and a non-key package. As one can imagine, autoremovals are based on bugs in testing. The bug in testing affects a non-key package, but I wouldn't be surprised if that once it takes the bug number in (for a non-key package) it isn't aware of the bts feature that a bug can be assigned to more packages and doesn't handle this case.
This seems very wrong. I'm fairly sure base-files doesn't depend on graphics drivers, and in any case the NVIDIA proprietary driver is in non-free, so by policy no package in main can possibly depend on it.
With the understanding above, I suspect it's just because of the removal of dkms, which is part of the key package set for $(reasons).
It might be better if autoremovals were evaluated something like this:
1. work out what autoremovals would take place if main was the only
archive area that existed;
Autoremoval is supposed to only remove non-key packages and completely ignore key packages. That's obviously not what happened, so a clear bug.
Technically the autoremoval is calculated by udd, hence reassigning there. Paul
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