On 2016-07-24 11:20, Francesco Poli wrote:
In the meanwhile, dpkg/1.18.9 managed to migrate to testing [1], despiteintroducing this RC bug: I wonder how that was even possible... do the testing migration checks skip pending RC bugs?!? a pending bug is not a fixed bug!!! I am Cc-ing the Release Team about this. Dear Release Team, could you please explain what I failed to understand about the testing migration rules [2]?
Your understanding is correct - an RC bug affecting sid and not testing is considered a regression and blocks migration, whereas one which affects both suites does not.
Britney is fed that information from the BTS. The migration happened because on 2016-07-18T22:00 #830267 was a regression, but on 2016-07-19T10:00 it was marked as also affecting testing, so the package was migrated. I don't know what happened in the BTS to cause that change, certainly nothing on the bug log that I can see.
It now, of course, correctly affects both sid and testing, so it is no longer a regression and further migrations will happen (notwithstanding other bugs affecting dpkg in sid).
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