Quoting Paul Gevers (2021-11-28 14:09:22) > On 28-11-2021 11:41, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > I wonder why debian-parl was removed from testing today, since (as I > > understand it) the reason for removal was solved 2 days ago. > > parl-desktop-eu in testing at the time of removal had a dependency on > iitalian. It's iitalian that has an RC bug. The only way to remove > iitalian from testing was to also remove reverse dependencies. Ah, right - makes sense. (silly me - what did I even expect should have happened instead?) > > Is there perhaps some spell I could have thrown when uploading a > > known close-to-deadline package? E.g. the trick of posting > > something to a bugreport to reset its timer? > > Pinging the RC bug that's causing the removal is indeed the way to > delay the removal (mind you, there's some delay between updating a bug > and the removal script being aware of the ping, so don't wait till the > last moment). In this case slightly inappropriate as the bug is in > another package, but we don't have anything better. Right. I was aware that the underlying issue was in iitalian. I began preparing an NMU but then realized that upstream project is dead since years so maybe better to let the package die as well. That's all why I chose to not ping the bug. Thanks again for the explanation. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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