- Package:
- qa.debian.org
- Source:
- qa.debian.org
- Submitter:
- Paul Wise
- Date:
- 2021-02-19 12:45:03 UTC
- Severity:
- wishlist
It would be good if debcheck could check for obsolete transitional packages so that maintainers can know that it is time to remove them. The default time period should probably encourage the removal of transitional packages that were introduced in oldstable after oldstable is moved to archive.debian.org. Debian doesn't support upgrades from oldstable to oldstable+2 so maybe debcheck should encourage the removal of transitional packages that were introduced in stable after it is renamed to oldstable.
debcheck processes a single release per run, so in its current form can't check this, or anything that requires comparing multiple releases. (The oldlibs check looks for explicit Section: oldlibs labels.) There is a separate tool on jenkins that does check this: https://salsa.debian.org/qa/jenkins.debian.net/-/blob/master/bin/find_obsolete_transitional_packages.sh It doesn't output to DDPO/tracker, but does allow semi-automated bug filing, which is being done: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=qa.debian.org@packages.debian.org;tag=transitional Hence, I suggest closing this bug.
Hallo, Ich habe dir eine Mail geschickt, aber keine Antwort von dir, warum? Eddie