Re: Migration despite an RC bug?

[Bálint Réczey <balint@balintreczey.hu>]

Hi,

2016-12-30 12:53 GMT+01:00 Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>:
> Hi!
>
> On Fri, 2016-12-30 at 09:25:20 +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
>> On 29/12/16 23:36, Christoph Biedl wrote:
>> > Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote...
>> >> Unforunately, the BTS exported a broken/incomplete RC bug list, and britney used
>> >> that and didn't see that some packages had an RC bug, so it allowed them to migrate.
>
>> > please rather focus on restoring the correct state. Installations
>> > running testing already might have got packages they shouldn't see.
>>
>> We thought about rolling back to the previous state, but that means testing
>> users who have already upgraded would need to manually downgrade... which is not
>> good.
>
> Yeah, any solution at this point will have serious downsides. :/

While this is not a solution but user-tagging the RC bugs which would
have prevented the migration but were ignored could help quickly
reviewing the packages which are affected.

Cheers,
Balint

>
>> So we may just wait for the auto-removal hinter to do its job for
>> non-key-packages, and for the rest to be fixed or manually downgraded, or
>> whatever other solution...
>
> I hope this does not trigger a storm of unnecessarily epoch'ed uploads. :(
>
> Thanks,
> Guillem
>