Bug#961283: libhttp-tiny-perl: Don't release with bullseye

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 10:17:24PM +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Hi Dominic,
> 
> On Fri, 22 May 2020 16:15:31 +0100 Dominic Hargreaves
> <dom at larted.org.uk> wrote:
> > Package: libhttp-tiny-perl
> > Version: 0.076-1
> > Severity: serious
> > Justification: maintainer
> > 
> > libhttp-tiny-perl at this version should not be released with
> > bullseye, since perl contains the same version.
> 
> This package is considered a key package by our tooling and will not be
> automatically removed from bullseye. Why don't you request it to be
> removed from unstable with a RM bug filed against ftp.debian.org? Than
> it will automatically be removed from bullseye too.

pkg-perl standard practice is to keep dual-lived packages in unstable
for a release cycle to make it easier to bring back when they
become newer than the version in perl again, which happens from time
to time.

It sounds like we should file a bug with the release team for
manual removal from testing instead in this case? What makes the package
"key" OOI? The package is provided by perl so removal from testing
should be safe.

Best
Dominic