On 2016-01-26 10:15, Mike Gabriel wrote:
Hi Adam,
On Di 26 Jan 2016 10:58:41 CET, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
On 2016-01-26 8:25, Mike Gabriel wrote:
[...]
A removal request has also been
sent to the ftpmasters for the package version found in unstable.
In that case there's no need for an explicit removal from testing.
Once the unstable removal is processed it will automatically become a
candidate for removal from testing.
[...]
"""
Removals from the oldstable, stable and testing distributions should
be requested by e-mailing the (Stable) Release Managers
[email protected] or filing a bug against the
release.debian.org pseudo-package (using the same format described in
this document; additionally, you should be nice by usertagging your
bugs with usertag rm and user [email protected]).
"""
Whereas this may be true during the freeze phase, it doesn't seem to
apply to non-freeze phases of Debian testing, right?
It applies at any time where the package should be removed from testing
but not also from unstable. Freeze is a common time when that will
happen, but it's not the only one (e.g. if a maintainer feels that their
package is not release-quality and does not wish to wait for an
autoremoval to kick in but plans to fix it in unstable eventually, if
the package should not be included in the release but is being kept in
unstable for compatibility reasons, if it is blocking a transition and
the maintainer is happy for it not to be in testing for a short while,
etc.)
(It should now say to file a bug for {,old}stable removals as well,
however.)
Regards,
Adam
