Re: spurious autoremovals due to python3-nose
* Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> [240927 10:07]:
> "nose" is RC buggy. It was until a few days ago in the "key packages set".
[..]
> What was not expected is that nose started the autoremoval counter of
> seemingly ~700 unrelated packages.
>
> How this does work :-| ?
I imagine exactly like you are seeing it play out. Now every
maintainer has 29 days to do something about the situation - either
cut nose out of their deps, or fix or delay the rc bug.
Don't know what the mechanism is for informing to-be-autoremoved
package maintainers, but it's good that the machinery is working.
An interesting research topic is probably what is the non-key key
package depending on nose, and can that be fixed soon. A good
starting point might be "pkg-perl-tools", which is affected but
seems unlikely to directly depend on nose...
Chris
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