[Piuparts-commits] [piuparts] 01/01: add disclaimer that this is basically for archived broken packages only

[Holger Levsen]

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commit d6810209238a16ae1f36914d8e9de819731682c8
Author: Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org>
Date:   Wed Dec 21 12:07:51 2016 +0100

    add disclaimer that this is basically for archived broken packages only
    
    Signed-off-by: Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org>
---
 custom-scripts/scripts/is_testable_uninstallable | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/custom-scripts/scripts/is_testable_uninstallable b/custom-scripts/scripts/is_testable_uninstallable
index 4aced35..944fa40 100755
--- a/custom-scripts/scripts/is_testable_uninstallable
+++ b/custom-scripts/scripts/is_testable_uninstallable
@@ -4,6 +4,12 @@ set -e
 # Return a non-zero error code to have piuparts skip testing an
 # uninstallable (or otherwise untestable) package.
 
+# Packages in main don't qualify for "external services out of our
+# control". They only qualify for "utterly broken" once on archive.d.o.
+# There are very few exceptions to this:
+# - usrmerge, which is is one-way.
+# - localepurge, which seems hard to undo without a complete --reinstall.
+
 skip_test()
 {
 	echo "Skipping piuparts test: $*"

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