Bug#305166: packages.qa.debian.org: package age off by one day

[Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 01:31:46PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> Package: qa.debian.org
> Severity: minor
> 
> 
> Under "Testing Status", often the following text appears:
> 'Too young, only n of N days old', but the value of n is off by one
> day (one day too young).
> 
> See e.g. http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/phpbb2.html of today.
> Data that's there:
> - Last modified : Mon Apr 18 05:44:21 UTC 2005
> - Last upload is dated: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 21:34:51 +0200
> - Too young, only 1 of 5 days old
> 
> If uploaded Friday at 19h UTC, it will be 1 day old Sat 19h, 2 days at
> Sun 19h so at Mon 5h it will be 2 days old, not 1.

If uploaded Friday at 19h UTC, it will just have missed dinstall,
so britney will not see it yet.  This means on Saterday at 19h
UTC dinstall will have seen it, and a few hours later (23 UTC?)
britney will see it for the first time and it'll become 0 days
old.  This means that on sunday on 19h UTC it will still be 0
days old, but at the time of britney run it will become 1 days
old.

Taking your example: phpbb2

It was accepted at: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 16:02:38 -0400  (20 UTC)

So it missed the dinstall run on friday and was installed on
Saterday 19 UTC.  On saterday it became 0 days old.  On sunday it
became 1 days old.

Now it's Monday, alomst 17 UTC, so it's still 1 day old, but will
become 2 days old around 23 UTC.  The page on
packages.qa.debian.org will be updated several hours after that,
but you should be able to see it with grep-excuses yourself.  If
you're going to try it with grep-excuses, britney takes about 20
minutes to run, so I suggest you wait atleast until 23:30 before
trying it.

Note that that count is how britney sees it, and has nothing to
do with how old the package really is.

For example a package uploaded a little earlier: doodle
It was accepted at: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 14:32:08 -0400 (18:30 UTC)

And it shows:
    2 days old (needed 2 days)


PS: Those scripts don't really run in UTC.  It's just the time
they run now, they change with the daylight saving time.


Kurt