Re: Weired package policy

[Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl>]

Op Sun, 07 Jan 2018 15:58:57 +0100 schreef Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de>:

> Hi folks,
>
> there is a thing, I cannot understand.
>
> > From time to time, there appear packages, which are in stable for a  
> > long time,
> and then suddenly they are in unstable and stable, but NOT in testing.
>
> This is a policy, I do not understand! An actual example is "cqrlog"  
> which
> appears in stable and sid, but not in testing.
>
> For my feeling, I would expect "cqrlog" in testing, too, maybe in the  
> same
> version as in stable, but not fully disappeared.

from: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/cqrlog

testing migrations
excuses:
Migration status: BLOCKED: Rejected/introduces a regression (please see  
below)
164 days old (needed 5 days)
Updating cqrlog introduces new bugs: #867140

There is difference of opinion about the libssl version. Buster will have  
1.1. Cqrlog depends on 1.0