On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 11:24:46AM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Sat, 2016-10-22 at 11:17 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 04:39:13AM +0000, Debian testing autoremoval watch > > wrote: > > > premail 0.46-10 is marked for autoremoval from testing on 2016-11-20 > > > > > > It (build-)depends on packages with these RC bugs: > > > 837712: xemacs21: FTBFS with bindnow and PIE enabled > > > > Is this bogus? > > > > I cannot see any direct or indirect (build-)depends of premail > > on xemacs21. > > It would need someone more familiar with the autoremovals code to > confirm, but I imagine it's due to premail's dependency on the > "mail-reader" virtual package, which is provided by, among others, > xemacs21-gnome-mule, xemacs21-gnome-mule-canna-wnn, > xemacs21-gnome-nomule, xemacs21-mule, xemacs21-mule-canna-wnn and > xemacs21-nomule.
Looking at the tracker page for premail [1] you seem to be right regarding where the problem is: premail already got removed from testing 4 times this year when a mail-reader was removed, and always re-entered testing the following day. Some autoremoval bug involving virtual packages and contrib? > Regards, > > Adam cu Adrian [1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/premail -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed
