Hi Russ, thanks for your bug report. On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 00:27, Russ Allbery <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: reportbug > Version: 4.12.6 > Severity: normal > > I attempted to file a removal bug against ftp.debian.org for a package > in testing for a particular architecture (ANAIS) and reportbug told me > to mail debian-release instead. However, debian-release can't handle > partial removals from testing: > > | britney doesn't support partial removals from testing (they generally > | wouldn't help anyway as e.g. out-of-date checks are relative to > | unstable, not testing); this is generally achieved by ftp-master > | removing the old binary from unstable and the effect automagically > | propagating to testing. > > I think reportbug should recommend filing the bug against unstable > instead, or say that the removal will propagate from unstable if it's > already been removed there.
Yes, we are aware of the situation, and I already have a patch for that (where asking a partial removal from testing against ftp.d.o is automatically converted in a partial removal from unstable). I developed it in collaboration with release team (after all, they know what the want) and I asked them if they want that fix for squeeze but they said it's quite a rare situation that doesn't worth the hassle, so it's just waiting in a feature branch on my pc :) Regards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
