On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 06:44:21PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> I guess I'll drop the transitional packages in an upload to experimental > >> and see what happens with the pseudo-excuses[1]. > Everything went well, and the transitional packages are no longer in > testing. :-)
very nice! > >> non-starter due to the large number of them. > > bug filing can be scripted ;) > Surely, but filing 300+ bugs to get rid of three empty packages is still > a very bad ratio and causes a lot of busy work which is not really > necessary. Rather, I filed _one_ bug against ftp.debian.org[1] to remove > the cruft packages from unstable where they currently remain. that's indeed much better. > FWIW, what I did looks like a good strategy for other transitional > packages with lots of reverse (build-)dependencies, maybe you would like > to inform their maintainers of it. I'm afraid I don't have the capacity for doing this at the moment... :/ But for the next transitional bug filings after the trixie release, maybe together we can draft a paragraph to include in those bugs? How about: ===== Please note that you can stage dropping the transitional package in experimental so that pseudo-excuses will show you which and how many reverse (build)-depends need to be changed. https://release.debian.org/britney/pseudo-excuses-experimental.html ===== ? -- cheers, Holger ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ holger@(debian|reproducible-builds|layer-acht).org ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ OpenPGP: B8BF54137B09D35CF026FE9D 091AB856069AAA1C ⠈⠳⣄ „Faschisten hören niemals auf, Faschisten zu sein Man diskutiert mit ihnen nicht, hat die Geschichte gezeigt“...
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