[R-pkg-team] Bug#1125226: Bug#1125226: Bug#1125226: Bug#1125226: src:r-cran-admisc: fails to migrate to testing for too long

[Paul Gevers]

Hi,

On 1/13/26 14:36, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 10:15:03AM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler a écrit :
>>
>> https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-ffmpeg.html
>> shows it for the ffmpeg transition.
> 
> Not to complain, but to improve our tracking systems:
> 
> I clearly see how you are aware of it, but how do you expect
> me to know about it if it does not show on the ffmpeg and r-cran-av
> tracker pages?


Well, library transitions in Debian are typically "smooth transitions", 
which means that the new library package (different SONAME requires 
different package name) to migrate to testing *while the old library 
package remains*. I expect the transition than disappears from the 
tracker, because for most purposes, the transition is not so interesting 
anymore (it's under "(almost) Finished transitions" on [1]). We still 
need to ensure that the old library package gets removed from testing 
however. Typically when rebuilds fail, we'll file bugs, but in this case 
the package in unstable changed to not allow us to rebuild the binaries 
in the regular way. It's not a big drama, but we'll need to ensure it 
gets resolved eventually. That's one of the main reasons why out-of-sync 
packages are considered RC after 30 days.

Paul

[1] https://release.debian.org/transitions/

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