Bug#882663: serverity important because qtwebkit is still in testing

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

Control: tags -1 important

On 11/25/2017 07:53 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 12:59:54PM +0100, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
>> Control: severity -1 important
>>
>> The serious severity is not appropriate as long as qtwebkit is still in
>> testing
> 
> And how should qtwebkit get removed from testing without RC bugs on the
> reverse dependencies first?
By filing an RM bug and having all remaining issues block that, and
whose severity is then raised.

> Due to RC bugs 28 of the 34 reverse dependencies have already been 
> removed from testing, and qgis is one of only 6 packages left.
> 
> Do you agree to testing removal of qgis without any further
> advance notice whenever qtwebkit testing removal is ready?
> 
> The only advance notice you can expect is this bug.
> 
>> and no definitive removal date is known.
> 
> testing removal of qtwebkit is only pending on the upload of
> a few more KDE packages.
> 
> December 2017 is a realistic date for removal from testing.
> 
> In the worst case it will happen in January 2018.

I'll believe it when I see it, previous experience with python-qt4 show
that it may take significantly more time.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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