Re: Bug#1120975: Please let r-base migrate by removing blocking packages
Hi Dirk
On Wed, 19 Nov 2025 at 11:01, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> wrote:
> | Looking at the excuses page you linked to above, only r-cran-bit64,
> | r-cran-freetypeharfbuzz and r-cran-grimport are blocking the migration
> | of r-base, the remainder have "failure will be ignored".
>
> Out of curiousity, and as I of course saw that too on the excuses page, which
> 'state variable' governs this, and how can one set / unset it?
In general, it is the state of a package's autopkgtests in the testing
suite that governs this.
e.g. r-cran-bayestestr is red [1] and r-cran-bit64 is green [2] (as of
2025-11-08 09:13:11 UTC)
One way to reset the state is to trigger the autopkgtests with the
fake 'migration-reference/0' package. If the autopkgtest is already
failing in testing and the 'migration-reference/0' result turns red,
then migration will no longer be blocked.
Regards
Graham
[1] https://ci.debian.net/packages/r/r-cran-bayestestr/testing/i386/
[2] https://ci.debian.net/packages/r/r-cran-bit64/testing/i386/
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