Bug#765636: DDPO: watch stopped to work.
On 2014-10-22 12:36, Bart Martens wrote:
> 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.
Oh, I see. That is reasonable.
BTW, I think #764999 could be another instance of this issue.
> 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".
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