reassign 1117650 qa.debian.org user [email protected] usertags 1117650 udd affects 1117650 release.debian.org thanks
On Thu, 9 Oct 2025 08:52:54 +0200 Paul Gevers <[email protected]> wrote:
retitle -1 autoremoval should be smarter about (versioned) Provides user [email protected]
On 10/9/25 06:16, Xiyue Deng wrote: > Xiyue Deng <[email protected]> writes: >> Paul Gevers <[email protected]> writes: >>> On 30-08-2025 07:11, Xiyue Deng wrote: >>>> Apparently I missed the fact that removing compat-el from testing will >>>> also remove all its reverse dependencies, which is already happening[1]. >>> >>> emacs-common Provides compat-el (versioned), so I my opinion this >>> removal (thread?) is a bug in the autoremoval tooling. (Versioned) >>> Provides is relatively new in Debian, not all tools deal with it in all >>> corner cases. Either somebody finds a fix for the autoremoval tooling >>> or, if we let the removal happen, I expect all dependent packages to >>> migrate straight back after removal. > So as Paul predicted, the reverse dependencies of compat-el got removed > from testing around Oct 6 and then re-entered around Oct 7, and since > then no remove notice is showing anymore. Thanks!So lets document this on the Release Team side as a bug in the tooling, although I'm not expecting it to get fixed soon.
And as the autoremoval script gets its information from udd, it's the testing_autoremovals_gatherer.pl script that needs to get smarter.
Paul
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