[Piuparts-devel] Piuparts cannot-be-tested - perl related?

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 19/01/17 16:23, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On 2017-01-19 07:46, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> testing migration of sdb is blocked by
>>   https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/source/s/sdb.html
> 
> No, it isn't:
> 
> $ grep-excuses sdb 
> grep-excuses: unprocessed line 1 in https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/autoremovals.yaml.cgi:
> ---
> sdb (AUTOREMOVAL)
>   flagged for removal in 11.3 days
>       bugs:
>       - '849069'
>       dependencies_only: false
>       last_checked: 2017-01-19 12:06:08
>       removal_date: 2017-01-30 23:39:13
>       source: sdb
>       version: 1.2-1
> sdb (1.2-1 to 1.2-1.1)
>     Maintainer: Jo Shields
>     Too young, only 3 of 10 days old
>     Updating sdb fixes old bugs: #849069
>     Cannot be tested by piuparts (not a blocker) - https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/source/s/sdb.html
>     Not considered
> 
> 
> cannot-be-tested is *not a blocker*

Yesterday this said:

Rejected due to piuparts regression -
https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/source/s/sdb.html

But I agree it's better to block packages in these cases until they can be
properly tested and to potentially let broken packages into testing. At least as
long as it doesn't happen too often piuparts doesn't become a bottleneck.

Cheers,
Emilio