On 28/07/09 at 14:50 +0100, Stuart Prescott wrote: > Package: qa.debian.org > Severity: wishlist > > Helping people on #debian, I often need to work out why a package is no > longer available. This tends to be asked in the following situations: > > * why isn't package xyz available in lenny (or squeeze or sid)? It used > to exist in etch! (Answer: could be renamed, dead upstream, etc) > > * why isn't package xyz available in lenny? it's in both etch and sid! > (Answer: it was removed from testing just before release because it was > RC buggy, but working out precisely why this is can be harder after the > release has been made) > > * why isn't package xyz available in testing but it's in unstable? > (Answer: all the usual migration and rc buggy reasons and fairly easy > to answer these days) > > A recent example was the grace6 package. So let's see what was required: > > 1. Go to the source package's QA page > > http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/grace6.html > > 2. look down the list of News items to find a "Removed from unstable" entry > > 3. look at news item to see bug number > > 4. go to bugs.debian.org/bugnumber > > 5. finally I get to look at the reasons why the package was removed > > > Solving the "why did package xyz not make it into the current stable > release" question is usually just a matter of wandering down to > find the "removed from testing" news entry instead and repeating the above > process. > > > It would be *much* nicer if the QA page had a link to the RM bug itself as > that cuts out quite a few manual steps in the middle. So instead of: > > [2009-06-14] Removed 5.99.1+dev4-7 from unstable (Frank Lichtenheld) > > can we have > > [2009-06-14] Removed 5.99.1+dev4-7 from unstable #459484 "RM: grace6 -- > RoQA; orphaned, buggy, not really version 6" (Frank Lichtenheld) > > or similar? (with appropriate hyperlinks)
I'd like to import removals into UDD at some point. When this is done, I could easily export a (package, bug) list, if that's useful. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: lu...@nussbaum.fr GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
