Control: severity -1 important
On 2014-01-06 21:28, Niels Thykier wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: serious
> Control: owner -1 !
>
> When a package with reverse dependencies are considered for
> auto-removal, the maintainers of receive dependencies do not receive a
> notification.
>
> This is a problem because these maintainers are then surprised when
> their package is suddenly removed "without notice"[1]. We need to
> ensure that maintainers of reverse dependencies receive adequate
> notice of the pending removal of their package.
> Having reflected a bit on the issue after it was mentioned on IRC,
> I consider the lack of this notification severe enough that we should
> consider temporarily suspending non-leaf / recursive removals until
> resolved.
>
Recursive removals have been temporarily disabled, downgrading the bug
accordingly.
> However, I believe the "leaf-removal" case to have sufficient
> notication (the RC bug itself being that notice). That said, I would
> still welcome them receiving a reminder when their package is put on
> the auto-removal list.
>
>
> The best suggestion I heard so far is mailing ${package}@packages.d.o,
> when the package appears on the auto-removal list. It would
> definitely be a "push"-notication and it was considered sufficient by
> the maintainers when we did these removals manually.
>
> ~Niels
>
> [...]
>
I am looking into making trille send out mails for this kind of thing.
~Niels
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