Bug#539014: qa.debian.org: show link to removal bug on package QA page
On 28/07/09 at 14:50 +0100, Stuart Prescott wrote:
> Package: qa.debian.org
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Helping people on #debian, I often need to work out why a package is no
> longer available. This tends to be asked in the following situations:
>
> * why isn't package xyz available in lenny (or squeeze or sid)? It used
> to exist in etch! (Answer: could be renamed, dead upstream, etc)
>
> * why isn't package xyz available in lenny? it's in both etch and sid!
> (Answer: it was removed from testing just before release because it was
> RC buggy, but working out precisely why this is can be harder after the
> release has been made)
>
> * why isn't package xyz available in testing but it's in unstable?
> (Answer: all the usual migration and rc buggy reasons and fairly easy
> to answer these days)
>
> A recent example was the grace6 package. So let's see what was required:
>
> 1. Go to the source package's QA page
>
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/grace6.html
>
> 2. look down the list of News items to find a "Removed from unstable" entry
>
> 3. look at news item to see bug number
>
> 4. go to bugs.debian.org/bugnumber
>
> 5. finally I get to look at the reasons why the package was removed
>
>
> Solving the "why did package xyz not make it into the current stable
> release" question is usually just a matter of wandering down to
> find the "removed from testing" news entry instead and repeating the above
> process.
>
>
> It would be *much* nicer if the QA page had a link to the RM bug itself as
> that cuts out quite a few manual steps in the middle. So instead of:
>
> [2009-06-14] Removed 5.99.1+dev4-7 from unstable (Frank Lichtenheld)
>
> can we have
>
> [2009-06-14] Removed 5.99.1+dev4-7 from unstable #459484 "RM: grace6 -- RoQA; orphaned, buggy, not really version 6" (Frank Lichtenheld)
>
> or similar? (with appropriate hyperlinks)
I'd like to import removals into UDD at some point. When this is done, I
could easily export a (package, bug) list, if that's useful.
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