Bug#865526: closed by Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg at debian.org> (Re: libpetsc3.7.5-dev: uninstallable on current sid)

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

control: close -1


Hello Adrian,
>No disagreement on that, but why did you close the bug?


because it triggers an useless autoremoval from testing, while the testing version
is completely fine.
>This is a release critical bug that should stay open until it is fixed 
>in sid.


this is not RC, because transitions and binNMU requests aren't.
RC would be in case Britney lets it migrate to testing, which isn't the case.

I requested a biNMU request a few seconds ago, so we should be fine with this one
in a few hours/days.

We can't track RC bugs because of a missing NMU, because otherwise the BTW would be full
of uninstallability bugs (useless) and "fixed" packages will be removed from testing
too (look e.g. to haskell and ocaml)

I know this isn't a strong point, this is why I asked on #-release channel for some
advices, feel free to disagree with me, but please followup on #866582

thanks!

G.