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Re: Does a temporarily dropped binary package have to re-enter via NEW?



On Thursday, November 13, 2025 1:12:23 PM Mountain Standard Time Christian 
Kastner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a package that provides multiple compute backends, all shipped as
> separate binary packages.
> 
> One of these backends requires a toolchain that, because of transitions
> and dependencies on transitions, will not be able to migrate to testing
> for what I believe will be a longer period. So it's holding back the
> rest of my package.
> 
> If I temporarily drop the binary package of this backend from my source
> package, will it have re-enter via NEW when I activate it again at some
> point in the future (say, 3 months from now)?

I believe the answer to that question is “yes”.  I think the check for new 
packages for an upload to unstable is against the version currently in 
unstable.

-- 
Soren Stoutner
soren@debian.org

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