Bug#961994: src:libcatmandu-perl: fails to migrate to testing for too long: causes autopkgtest regression

[Paul Gevers]

Hi Niko

On 03-06-2020 18:55, Niko Tyni wrote:
>> As recently announced [1], the Release Team now considers packages that
>> are out-of-sync between testing and unstable for more than 60 days as
>> having a Release Critical bug in testing. Your package
>> src:libcatmandu-perl in unstable has been trying to migrate for 60 days
>> [2]. Hence, I am filing this bug.
> 
> So if I read this correctly, libcatmandu-perl cannot migrate because it
> breaks the test suite of libcatmandu-sru-perl in testing. The version of
> libcatmandu-sru-perl in unstable fixes this, but cannot migrate because
> it has a versioned dependency on libcatmandu-perl that is only satisfied
> in unstable.

Aha, that's unfortunate than. Normally this would mean that the test run
of libcatmandu-sru-perl for itself already yielded a good result for
libcatmandu-perl, but because the latter was updated, no such thing
happened. In such a case, britney doesn't solve it by itself.

> I believe the preferred way to get these to migrate together is to declare
> that libcatmandu-perl Breaks the older libcatmandu-sru-perl versions.

Or a reupload of libcatmandu-sru-perl would also solve it I believe.

> Alternatively, just waiting it out will probably work too: once testing
> removal happens, the newer packages can migrate on their own.

This would be a bad solution as ...

> However,
> if the test suite breakage is not just a technicality, the missing
> Breaks makes it possible for users to partially upgrade their systems
> to a broken combination.

This is the interesting question. Is there something broken in the
combination that we're testing? If so, I would prefer the Breaks.

> Paul, please correct me if I'm mistaken above :)

If it's *only* the test that's broken, I can manually trigger the right
test.

Paul

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