[Piuparts-devel] testing transitional packages

[Luk Claes]

On 04/22/2012 02:29 PM, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,

Hi Holger

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

Yes, unless they don't need to transition to testing and be part of a
release...

> 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?

It's serious severity even if not filed as britney will not let it migrate.

Cheers

Luk