* Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.deti...@gmail.com> [240927 10:07]: > "nose" is RC buggy. It was until a few days ago in the "key packages set". [..] > What was not expected is that nose started the autoremoval counter of > seemingly ~700 unrelated packages. > > How this does work :-| ?
I imagine exactly like you are seeing it play out. Now every maintainer has 29 days to do something about the situation - either cut nose out of their deps, or fix or delay the rc bug. Don't know what the mechanism is for informing to-be-autoremoved package maintainers, but it's good that the machinery is working. An interesting research topic is probably what is the non-key key package depending on nose, and can that be fixed soon. A good starting point might be "pkg-perl-tools", which is affected but seems unlikely to directly depend on nose... Chris
