Bug#895393: tracker.debian.org thinks 3.9.8 is the latest standards version
Control: tag -1 + newcomer
Hello,
On Wed, 11 Apr 2018, dequis wrote:
> The old package tracker complains that my package is "severely out of
> date", while the new one thinks it is up to date and doesn't complain
> about anything.
[...]
> < pabs> IIRC the tracker code looks at the version of the debian-policy
> package
Right, the package tracker looks at the version of the debian-policy
package at the time of the upload of the package. But it fails to redo
the check for old packages once that a new debian-policy version is
available...
If anyone wants to try to tackle this bug, the code is in
distro_tracker/stdver_warnings/tracker_tasks.py
This would be easier to fix if Tasks had persistent data associated
to them (which is planned as part of
https://salsa.debian.org/qa/distro-tracker/issues/8) but it's possible
to fix it already by detecting when debian-policy is among updated
packages (i.e. returned by get_packages_from_events()) and then decide
to reprocess all packages anyway.
In the mean time, I'm forcing a full run on all packages.
Cheers,
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Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer
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