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Re: package stuck in unstable after switching to AutomaticDebugPackages



On Sun, May 08, 2016 at 09:40:02PM +0000, Niels Thykier wrote:
> James Cowgill:
> > On Sun, 2016-05-08 at 20:17 +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote:
> >> gearmand package has stuck in unstable due to missing -dbg packages:
> >>
> >>  https://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=gearmand
> > 
> > It's not migrating because the old dbg packages are still in sid.
> 
> The note from testing.pl is (now) just an informational message.  Have a
> look at [1], which notes the following items of interest:

In general, testing.pl is imho more confusing than anything else.  And
really reading the message in tracker.d.o is usually more than enough to
understand what's wrong.  Not in this case, but here testing.pl didn't
either...

> > Usually stuff like this is removed automatically by dak's auto
> > decrufter but apparently not this time.
> > 
> 
> Hmm, apparently the auto-decrufter thinks that the removal of
> libgearman7-dbg would break libgearman-dbg.  I suspect part of the issue
> is that libgearman-dbg is an arch:all package (which has a different
> heuristic for depending when it should be decrufted).
> 
> > If you file a NBS removal bug against ftp.debian.org then the package
> > should migrate after the dbg packages are removed manually.
> > 
> > James
> > 
> 
> I agree that it would probably help. :)

I agree that a NBS removal for libgearman-dbg should be enough.
Then the autodecrufter will be able to remove libgearman7-dbg, and then
gearmand will be able to migrate.

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