[Piuparts-devel] Bug#856846: piuparts.debian.org: jessie-security has >1700 packages in dependency-failed-testing status

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2017-03-05 13:27, Holger Levsen wrote:
> the subject says it: jessie-security has >1700 packages in dependency-failed-testing 
> status, which is far too many for the stable release. We should track down the
> cause for this and fix it.
> 
> see https://piuparts.debian.org/jessie-security

These are mostly packages where jessie has a newer version than
jessie-updates ... I have a local hack that adds a new state "outdated"
and ignores these packages (but I reuse one of the old states, since
adding a new state will require adding another column of zeroes to all
counts.txt files ...)


Andreas