On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 18:57:06 +0100 Mattia Rizzolo wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 04:47:30PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote:
> > In the meanwhile, I see that something changed on the BTS side.
> > But something still appears to be wrong. The RC bug count page [1]
> > claims
> > 
> >   Number concerning the current stable release: 597
> >   Number concerning the next release: 1190
> > 
> > which does not look right to me (there were about 500 RC bugs
> > concerning the next release a few days ago, or am I recalling
> > incorrectly?!?).
> 
> that's because "concerning the next stable release" means testing.
> Before yesterday all those RC-buggy packages were kept out of testing,
> so the RC bug count for it was a lot lower.

So many RC bugs introduced into testing, due this BTS version tracking
issue?!?

Could this harm the release process?

I mean: a lot of RC-buggy package versions migrated into testing, when
they should have not. Many packages are now risking being auto-removed
from testing, if the RC bugs are not fixed quickly. And auto-removed
packages won't re-enter stretch, since the soft freeze will begin
shortly [2].

[2] on January, the 5th, unless I am misinterpreting the announce
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/12/msg00000.html

It seems a bit unfair that some packages won't be part of stretch, due
to a BTS glitch which happened during the last days before the soft
freeze.

What can be done about this unfortunate situation?


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