Bug#618805: britney2: wrong uninstallable count in some cases? (libebml+libmatroska transition)

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

Package: release.debian.org
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: britney

Filing in the bts so we don't forget...
This was from the March 16 morning run.

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:37:57 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:23:35 +0000, Release Managers wrote:
> 
> > --- HeidiResult_b1	2011-03-16 10:10:09.000000000 +0000
> > +++ HeidiResult_b2	2011-03-16 10:23:29.000000000 +0000
> > @@ -121224,29 +121224,29 @@
> > -libebml 1.2.0-2 source libs
> > +libebml 0.7.7-3.1 source libs
> 
> Looks like we got ourselves yet another b2 bug...
> 
> b1 does:
> Trying hint from jcristau: libmatroska/1.1.0-2 libebml/1.2.0-2
> leading: libmatroska,libebml
> start: 113+0: i-7:a-2:a-2:i-2:k-45:k-45:m-3:m-2:p-2:s-2:s-1
> orig: 113+0: i-7:a-2:a-2:i-2:k-45:k-45:m-3:m-2:p-2:s-2:s-1
> recur: [] libmatroska,libebml 403/0
> trying: -boost-jam
> skipped: -boost-jam (0 <- 402)
>     got: 31+0: i-31
>     * i386: boost-build
> [...]
> trying: grass
> skipped: grass (360 <- 42)
>     got: 35+0: i-35
>     * i386: grass, grass-dev, libgdal1-1.6.0-grass, libqgis-dev, qgis-plugin-grass
> 
> b2:
> Trying hint from jcristau: libmatroska/1.1.0-2 libebml/1.2.0-2
> leading: libmatroska,libebml
> start: 113+0: i-7:a-2:a-2:i-2:k-45:k-45:m-3:m-2:p-2:s-2:s-1
> orig: 113+0: i-7:a-2:a-2:i-2:k-45:k-45:m-3:m-2:p-2:s-2:s-1
> recur: [] libmatroska,libebml 403/0

b2 believes grass, grass-dev, libgdal1-1.6.0-grass, libqgis-dev,
qgis-plugin-grass are already uninstallable by that point.

> trying: -boost-jam
> skipped: -boost-jam (0 <- 402)
>     got: 36+0: i-36
>     * i386: boost-build
> [...]
> trying: grass
> accepted: grass
>    ori: 113+0: i-7:a-2:a-2:i-2:k-45:k-45:m-3:m-2:p-2:s-2:s-1
>    pre: 382+0: i-35:a-27:a-26:i-26:k-69:k-69:m-27:m-26:p-26:s-26:s-25
>    now: 382+0: i-35:a-27:a-26:i-26:k-69:k-69:m-27:m-26:p-26:s-26:s-25
>    all: libmatroska libebml grass
> 
> i.e. it seems to have a different (broken?) uninstallable count at the
> start of the hint already...
> 
Cheers,
Julien