Bug#765636: DDPO: watch stopped to work.

[Bart Martens <bartm@debian.org>]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:18:34AM +0200, Markus Wanner wrote:
> On 10/20/2014 09:37 PM, Christian Kastner wrote:
> > I'm afraid this is not the case, some of my packages still show
> > month-old dates, eg:
> 
> That's not necessarily an indication of the service not working. It's an
> indication of a low frequency of the checks, yes.
> 
> >     https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/watch?pkg=python-keyczar
> >     https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/watch?pkg=libocas
> >     https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/watch?pkg=libcgroup
> 
> python-keyczar updated, by now, which is an indication of the service
> working. The other two didn't.
> 
> > Is it possible that the check is only performed on a monthly basis? If
> > not, the bug should probably be reopend.
> 
> I tried to find the source code for whatever service does these queries,
> but couldn't find it. I'm sorry, I cannot answer the question about
> frequency of checks.

I can.  The frequency is different per package, depending on the number of past
failures.  The frequency exponentially slows down with more failures.  There
must have been a general problem, because we have many packages with high retry
counts.  I'm now lowering the retry counts manually to speed up processing.

The source code is here :
anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/qa/trunk/mole/watch-requeue/watch-requeue.pl?view=markup
Look for "number of days to wait before trying again".

Regards,

Bart Martens