Re: getting a list of out of date binaries in armhf testing.
On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 22:46 +0000, peter green wrote:
> Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 21:56 +0000, peter green wrote:
> >
> >> Afaict one of the key steps in getting an architecture to release status
> >> is to deal with (prefferablly by fixing but I guess removing could also
> >> be an option in some cases) any out of date packages for that
> >> architecture in testing. Am I correct?
> >>
> >
> > It's certainly a useful thing to do, yeah. Note that binary removals
> > from testing don't happen, though...
> >
> If an out of date binary is removed from unstable will the corresponding
> binary be removed from testing?
Assuming nothing in testing depends on it, yes.
[...]
> > Basically, it's still pointing
> > at the britney1 output files, which haven't been updated in quite some
> > time now - since July, in fact. I'll get it updated to use the britney2
> > files.
> >
> Thanks, please inform me when you have done so so that I can start going
> through it.
It's only updated twice a day (during britney runs) so it'll take a
while for the result to be visible. Hopefully it'll be done for one of
tomorrow's runs.
> > [Also fwiw the above URL is a link to
> > http://release.debian.org/britney/testing_outdate.txt , which is more
> > canonical these days, given that ftp-master haven't run britney for a
> > few years.]
> >
> Ok should I file a bug against debian-www to get
> http://www.debian.org/devel/testing updated? or is it not worth bothering?
There's other things that are wrong on that page (e.g. the sample log
output) and I don't think ftp-master are likely to drop the link in the
near future given that things / people expect it to exist, so it's not
really worth it imo.
Regards,
Adam
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