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Bug#685327: qa.debian.org: report packager on package migration fail



On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 03:03:33PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> On Monday 20 August 2012 01:18 PM, Ricardo Mones wrote:
> >   Mail is already sent when a package migrates succesfully, so absence of
> > such mail on the expected time should give you a hint.
> > 
> >   The situations you describe already grant very likely you have received
> > an RC bug mail describing the problem. You already know an RC bug will
> > prevent your package from migrating, so another mail telling the obvious
> > is just useless IMO.
> 
> It won't hurt to receive an extra email.

  That's just because you still don't receive enough. Not everybody is so
lucky ;)

> No. Migration blockages are not always due to RC bugs. I filed this
> report because I got hit by this. My package, open-iscsi, was blocked
> because its dependent package, scsi-modules provided by the kernel,
> recently stopped building on all architectures.
> 
> For this situation, I never got an email. So, please, if it can be done,
> it'll be good.

  Sure, and not receiving it 10 days after uploading should have been a
hint something was wrong, as said. Anyway that's a matter of preferences.
As long as implementation is opt-in only it will be good.

  regards,
-- 
  Ricardo Mones 
  ~
  Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but 
  that's not why we do it.                            Richard Feynman

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