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Bug#899085: release.debian.org: excuses terminology: replace "Valid Candidate" with "Trying to migrate"?



Paul Wise:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: britney
> 
> In #898329, pochu had to clarify the meaning of "Valid Candidate":
> 
>    Just to clarify things: being a valid candidate means britney will
>    try to migrate that package to testing. That can still fail (and
>    fails in this case) because the package is not installable on i386
>    (which is a requirement).
> 
> This comes up a lot in various places, I wonder if replacing "Valid
> Candidate" with "Trying to migrate" or similar in the excuses output
> would help clarify the situation for people. "Not Considered" could be replaced with "Not trying to migrate yet" for a smaller clarification.
> 

Currently, we both provide e.g.:

"""
Migration status: OK: Will attempt migration (Any information below is
purely informational)
"""
(first line in the HTML excuse for a given package)


Along with:

"""
Valid candidate
"""

So changing the wording to the proposed will simply make it redundant
with the first line.  Perhaps we should simply remove that line now?

Thanks,
~Niels


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