Re: Question about update excuses

[Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>]

Hi,

On 06/13/2013 10:49, Santiago Vila wrote:
> The web page "update excuses" today says this about base-files:
> 
>    Generated: 2013.06.12 22:06:17 +0000
>      * base-files_pu (7.2 to 7.1wheezy1)
>           + Maintainer: Santiago Vila
>           + ALERT: base-files is newer in testing (7.2 7.1wheezy1)
> 
> which I don't understand, specially the "7.2 to 7.1wheezy1" part.
> 
> Is any program trying to update from 7.2 to 7.1wheezy1 "somewhere"?
> 
> Such thing should certainly not happen in stable (as stable has 7.1)
> and it should not happen in testing either (as the 7.1wheezy1 upload was
> for stable only).
> 
> Should I worry about this? Is which way is this information correct?

That should be the release team's playground.

I don't know why they report on version in p-u compared to testing, but
it probably doesn't mean anything bad.

Ansgar