Bug#722262: Packages removed from testing when taken over by another source in sid
Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: britney
It seems Britney will happily remove from testing any binary package taken over
in sid by another source package when its initial source package is removed or
updated, instead of waiting for the new version of the package to be ready. I'm
wondering whether this is an expected behavior of Britney.
For instance, package proftpd-mod-geoip was removed from testing together with
its source package on July 1, while the new version of the package build from
the source package proftpd-dfsg is still stuck in sid.
Likewise, libcolord-gtk-dev and libcolord-gtk1 were removing from testing when
the source package colord was updated on July 6; a new version of these
packages were put back in testing the next day together with their new source
package colord-gtk.
Finally, ulogd and other packages from the source package ulogd were removed
from testing on July 7, while transitional dummy packages of the same names
remained in sid until July 15 together with the new source package ulogd2.
-- Jérôme Vouillon
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.10-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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