On 28/03/2020 19:26, Jon Turney wrote:
I've recently deployed some updates to calm, which change a few things
maintainers may notice:
* reports are now sent to package maintainers when vaulting old
packages, even when that's not caused by an upload (e.g. due to a change
of test: status, or expiry policy)
* the names of packages which have been completely removed are
remembered so they are valid to appear in obsoletes:
* packages without a maintainer are given the additional category
'Unmaintained' in setup.ini
* package expiry refinements:
- an empty, sourceless debuginfo package, or a useless debuginfo and
source package pair will be expired
- unused, deprecated, old shared library versions can be expired
unused: no packages depend on it (rdepends is empty)
deprecated: a later soversion exists (or the solibrary is no longer
generated by the source package)
old: over some threshold for package age
At the moment, the package age threshold is set sufficiently high that
no packages are selected, but I will be gradually winding it forward, to
observe the effect on a small number of packages at a time.
Eventually, this should eliminate packages in the deprecated so report
[1] with a rdepends count of zero. To reduce the rdpepends count to
zero, packages which depend on a deprecated soversion need to be rebuilt
for a newer soversion.
[1] https://cygwin.com/packages/reports/deprecated_so.html
