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Re: Remove package from testing even if it has reverse dependencies?



Hi Kenneth,

On 20-07-2019 22:10, Kenneth Pronovici wrote:
> I have filed bugs with ftp.debian.org <http://ftp.debian.org> to remove
> pychecker and epydoc from the archive.  These packages are obsolete -
> they rely on Python 2 and can't be converted to Python 3.  I filed bugs
> with all of the reverse dependencies back in November of 2017 advising
> that I would remove these packages after buster was released. 
> Unfortunately, both packages still have some reverse dependencies (most
> of which appear to be obsolete themselves).  
> 
> The Developer Reference says that a package will stay in testing until
> no package in testing depends on it any more.  In that case, it seems
> like pychecker and epydoc will never be removed.  Do I understand that
> correctly?
> 
> How am I supposed to handle this?  Can my packages be removed from
> testing manually?  Or is there some other mechanism I should use? 

If you want to remove pychecker and epydoc from Debian, you need to
discuss and align this with ftp.debian.org via a bug report. If they
agree that those packages should go, they will also remove reverse
dependencies. Once those are gone from unstable, testing will follow
automatically.

Paul

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