On 2016-01-26 10:15, Mike Gabriel wrote:
Hi Adam, On Di 26 Jan 2016 10:58:41 CET, Adam D. Barratt wrote:On 2016-01-26 8:25, Mike Gabriel wrote:
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A removal request has also been sent to the ftpmasters for the package version found in unstable.In that case there's no need for an explicit removal from testing. Once the unstable removal is processed it will automatically become a candidate for removal from testing.
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""" Removals from the oldstable, stable and testing distributions should be requested by e-mailing the (Stable) Release Managers debian-release@lists.debian.org or filing a bug against the release.debian.org pseudo-package (using the same format described in this document; additionally, you should be nice by usertagging your bugs with usertag rm and user release.debian.org@packages.debian.org). """ Whereas this may be true during the freeze phase, it doesn't seem to apply to non-freeze phases of Debian testing, right?
It applies at any time where the package should be removed from testing but not also from unstable. Freeze is a common time when that will happen, but it's not the only one (e.g. if a maintainer feels that their package is not release-quality and does not wish to wait for an autoremoval to kick in but plans to fix it in unstable eventually, if the package should not be included in the release but is being kept in unstable for compatibility reasons, if it is blocking a transition and the maintainer is happy for it not to be in testing for a short while, etc.)
(It should now say to file a bug for {,old}stable removals as well, however.)
Regards, Adam