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Re: Bug#816500: linux-tools: should not migrate to testing before the corresponding src:linux



Control: tag -1 wontfix

On Wed, 2016-03-02 at 17:47 +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
[...]
> > Does that mean there was manual intervention?  Or is that automatic
> > behaviour?  Does it ignore all->any dependencies on !x86?
> 
> It was all automatic. britney only requires that arch:all packages are 
> installable on i386 and amd64. At the end of the britney run during 
> which linux-tools migrated, the old binary packages from each of the 
> other architectures were removed as doing so did not create any new 
> uninstallability so far as britney was concerned.

I conclude that this "bug" is harmless to x86, and the broken state of
!x86 is down to britney policy and not something to be overridden at
package level.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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