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Re: Britney fails to pin complete set in "Provides" api transitions [Was: Bug#1010422: transition: r-api-bioc-3.15]



Hi Paul,

Am Thu, May 19, 2022 at 01:07:59PM +0200 schrieb Paul Gevers:
> @tille, removals are work for *us*, they are not free lunch. Please fix the
> package that prevent migration.

There is no clean fix.  The packages featuring r-bioc-api-3.15 just need
some new predependencies.  These are hanging in new since some days.
Just pretending the new predependencies are not needed is not a fix,
IMHO.  So we can do nothing but wait.
 
> PS: for every transition we ask packages that need to go through NEW to be
> prepared in experimental such that during the transition, we don't need to
> wait for it.

I agree that in principle experimental would be cleaner.  On the other
hand its a lot more manual work.  I wonder whether it is a real problem
to leave the new r-bioc-* packages waiting in unstable until the
preconditions might have cleared NEW.  Is this not yet finished
transition in some way creating work?  I mean we have uploaded lots of
packages pretty fast - hopefully faster than in other transitions.  So
we are now waiting a bit.  May be my view on transitions is to naive and
there is really a problem if its delayed a couple of days more.  I plan
to give some hint to ftpmaster in the beginning of next week but I do
not want to create more pressure than needed.

Kind regards

     Andreas.

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