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Re: possible bug in auto-removals.



Hi Peter,

Thanks for your analysis. I believe I mostly came to same conclusion
some days ago. Thanks for caring.

On 21-12-2019 08:07, peter green wrote:
> My understanding is that smooth updates is a feature that deliberately
> allows some cruft in testing to make it easier for transitions to complete.

cruft and smooth-updates are two orthogonal concepts for britney. Until
recently I had the same idea as you.

> I had assumed that you had expanded smooth-updates from library packages
> to other packages, looks like that assumption was wrong.

Indeed. There was a bug in the cruft handling.

>> https://salsa.debian.org/qa/udd/blob/master/udd/testing_autoremovals_gatherer.pl
>>
> I'm afraid I don't speak perl.

Neither do I.

> I wonder if it makes sense to manually remove hinge for the moment.

Is there any hurry?

Paul

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