[Piuparts-devel] testing transitional packages

[Holger Levsen]

Hi,

cc:ing debian-qa@ to get more input on this matter.

On Mittwoch, 11. April 2012, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> are there some guidelines how transitional packages should behave?
> Do they need to be installable?

my feeling is yes, as this seems to be a way to force removal of transitional 
packages on systems... but... I'm not sure, so hello -qa@ ;-)
 
> libselinux-ruby1.8 is not installable in sid (and therefore not testable
> by piuparts) - is this allowed? And if not, whats the correct severity?

if it's allowed, then it's wishlist. (btw, do we have some automatism to 
detect useless transitional packages?), else serious, as every package has to 
be installable.


cheers,
	Holger