Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/gnudatalanguage/gdl/issues/537
Hi Sebastiaan, On 03.12.18 09:41, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > hdf5 is unable to migrate to testing because gnudatalanguage > autopkgtests fail. Test failures indicate that the package is broken, > and not suitable for release. It should be removed from testing until > the test failures are fixed, which also allows hdf5 and its rdeps to > migrate to testing. That is currently in the decision of the package maintainer. Neither the policy nor the RC document you cited list CI test failures or migration delays as a possible cause for severity "serious". > As announced the autopkgtest delay is increased exponentially which will > block packages from getting into buster before the final freeze. We do > not want that to happen, but your package is not allowing hdf5 and its > rdeps to migrate even though there is nothing else preventing this part > of the transition. > Fix your failing autopkgtests or remove them. Not fixing failing > autopkgtests in your package that prevent its dependencies from (timely) > testing migration is very unfriendly (to phrase it very mildly). I totally agree, I am affected as well, and I am working on it. You shouldn't think that an "important" bug does not get attention. But this also does not reason the severity "serious". Best regards Ole
