[Debian-med-packaging] Please add force hint to enable metaphlan2-data testing migration

[Andreas Tille]

On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 09:50:33AM +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> > 
> > Neither sspace nor metaphlan2-data were in testing at all.  These are new
> > packages that never have made it into testing at all.  So it seems that my
> > assumption that once the package is in testing (and I fully agree that its
> > our task to keep them there) no additional force-hint will be required.
> 
> sspace was in testing, then got removed, see
> https://packages.qa.debian.org/s/sspace.html

Ups, sorry.
 
> And yes, I think once the package is in testing, no force-hints are needed.

Good, now we know where to be extra carefully.

> > When thinking about more solution: Is it really sensible these days to
> > pin the testing migration on the existence of packages in i386?  I might
> > be very naive about the mechanism behind but I think at least some
> > "i386||amd64" logic would be appropriate.
> 
> Not really. That's there to catch regressions and bugs, and should stay for the
> foreseeable future (as long as i386 stays mainstream). I won't remove that for a
> dozen of packages that are not installable on i386.

OK, I simply trust your insight here.

Thanks again for the clarification

      Andreas.

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