Re: More 5 november in the release schedule
Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> writes:
> I seem to get email when a package I maintain is marked for autoremoval
> (regardless of whether it is an issue with my package or an rdepend). That
> and it showing up on your DDPO Packages overview ought to be enough to be
> forewarned, I would have thought.
That will help in some cases, but not all cases.
Can't remember what happened for my particular cases. I should look up
the details and refresh my memory, but out of time now.
One situation I can think of: If for example the package is not yet in
testing, you will not get notified that it depends on a broken package
and as such will not get into testing. So you can mistakenly think it is
a simple package, it has no bugs, and not realize it isn't in testing.
Another situation: You are not listed as the maintainer of the package
you really care about, and the real maintainer ignores the autoremoval
notifications. Other people looking at the package bug reports (there
may be none) may not realize it is pending autoremoval.
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Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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