On 2018-01-07 at 10:26, Floris wrote: > 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 I read his objection as being to the policy about what should be done when a bug bad enough to warrant removing that package version from testing is identified. Currently, the policy is that when that happens, the package is removed from testing. I read him as saying that the policy *should* be that when such a bug is identified, the version from stable (or maybe the previous non-buggy version, from before the upload which introduced the bug) should be reintroduced into testing. Unfortunately, this would not work well with the way package version numbers are handled, and I'm not sure it wouldn't be impractically unwieldy to implement on the backend in any case. (Plus the difficulties with dependencies; what happens when the version which would be reintroduced depends on an older version of another package, and the newer version is already in testing and does not itself have such a bug?) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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