More about removing more packages from unstable (Was: Bits from DPL)
Hi again,
Am Thu, Sep 05, 2024 at 06:18:02PM +0000 schrieb Scott Kitterman:
> I'm willing to assume good faith and accept that was not your intention. It's in the past.
OK.
> >I need to trust you here as the one who is doing the work. The
> >discussion also was about a semi-automatic process which. Do you have
> >some opinion about this?
> >
> I don't have any problem with a process that suggests to people doing QA work in Debian that package removal might be appropriate based on some criteria. I don't think that such a semi-automatic process relives the person filing the RM bug from engaging their brain to decide if it makes sense.
>
> I can see how having such a tool that used criteria that has been socialized within the project to some degree might reduce social pressure to not file the bug. More people working on QA is always good.
Nice we agree here.
One more detail about package removals: As you might have seen there
were about 200 removals of 32 bit architectures of r-bioc-* packages and
I expect more r-cran-* packages to come. Do you see any chance to
automate architecture specific removals, most favourably by dealing with
a whole dependency tree. This would probably remove a lot of manual
work from DDs as well as your own work.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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