Re: [RFC] Breaking britney2's backward compatibility

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 23:27 +0200, Philipp Kern wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 09:57:22PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > Obsolete binary packages in a configurable list of archive sections
> > (currently "libs" and "oldlibs", although the latter is somewhat
> > debatable) are not automatically removed when the source package is
> > updated; instead they are kept in testing temporarily to ease
> > transitions.  At the end of each run, britney will attempt to remove any
> > such packages she finds.
> 
> Yep, I also disagree on the oldlibs bit, FWIW.  Are we also getting a list of
> packages that are still keeping old libraries in testing?

Not at the moment, but I suspect it wouldn't be hugely difficult to add.
This is an example of the output, from a recent(ish) data set:

List of old libraries in testing (53):
  libsaml6: i386 amd64 armel ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc
  libtracker-client-0.8-0: i386 amd64 armel ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc
  libxmltooling4: i386 amd64 armel ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc
  libxml-security-c15: i386 amd64 armel ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc
  libdbi0: i386 amd64 armel ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 mips mipsel powerpc s390

Regards,

Adam