[Reportbug-maint] Bug#597359: reportbug: partial testing removals shouldn't go to debian-release

[Sandro Tosi]

Hi Russ,
thanks for your bug report.

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 00:27, Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: reportbug
> Version: 4.12.6
> Severity: normal
>
> I attempted to file a removal bug against ftp.debian.org for a package
> in testing for a particular architecture (ANAIS) and reportbug told me
> to mail debian-release instead.  However, debian-release can't handle
> partial removals from testing:
>
> | britney doesn't support partial removals from testing (they generally
> | wouldn't help anyway as e.g. out-of-date checks are relative to
> | unstable, not testing); this is generally achieved by ftp-master
> | removing the old binary from unstable and the effect automagically
> | propagating to testing.
>
> I think reportbug should recommend filing the bug against unstable
> instead, or say that the removal will propagate from unstable if it's
> already been removed there.

Yes, we are aware of the situation, and I already have a patch for
that (where asking a partial removal from testing against ftp.d.o is
automatically converted in a partial removal from unstable).

I developed it in collaboration with release team (after all, they
know what the want) and I asked them if they want that fix for squeeze
but they said it's quite a rare situation that doesn't worth the
hassle, so it's just waiting in a feature branch on my pc :)

Regards,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
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