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Bug#463050: qa.debian.org: please list packages in mentors.d.n in TODO section



On Freitag, 8. August 2008, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 12:10 -0300, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 08:43:11AM +0900, Paul Wise wrote:
> > > > Perfect. Latest available in sid or experimental IMO.
> > >
> > > Actually, any version on mentors, since mentors tracks the archive
> > > and deletes packages that have been uploaded to the official
> > > archive.
> >
> > I need a clarification on this: does mentors get rid of packages which
> > were on mentors and get uploaded with the _same_ version in the
> > official archive, or it rather gets rid of any packages on mentors
> > which get superseded in the official archive via an upload of version
> > greater or equal than what were on mentors?
> >
> > The latter case would be simpler, as I can avoid completely doing
> > version comparisons in the PTS, and simply output the TODO item if a
> > version (whatever it might be) is available on mentors.d.n.
>
> Not entirely sure, I believe it is the latter though. CCing Signum, who
> can provide a definitive answer on this. Also, the mentors code will be
> changing at some point when debexpo gets deployed (currently in
> development by a GSoC student).

Currently mentors just removes packages automatically that have exactly the 
same version appearing on the debian-devel-changes@ mailing list. But it 
won't react to newer packages. This is not the best solution. And it will 
be solved soon hopefully.

Cheers
 Christoph
-- 
When you do things right people won't be sure you've done anything at all.

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