Bug#959505: release.debian.org: Is erlang autoremoval is necessary?

[Sergei Golovan <sgolovan@nes.ru>]

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal

Hi release team!

Today, I've got an autoremoval mails for erlang and a whole bunch of related
packages because of #958841 (see [1] for details).

Is it really necessary to remove erlang and all its reverse dependencies,
while it's elixir-lang which is the culprit? As far as I can see, removal
of all erlang related packages (which includes elixir-lang) should lead to
moving them back except for elixir-lang which is now uninstallable.
On the other hand, just removing elixir-lang from testing achieves the same
outcome without removing/moving back many packages.

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=958841

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.3
  APT prefers stable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental'), (1, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)