Hi, Andreas sent this to the piuparts-devel list while I think it's more appropriate to discuss this on debian-release@....
On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 02:38:38PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> currently britney uses piuparts regressions comparing testing vs. sid to
> block migrations. That's fine, since we should have few false positives
> in sid nowadays.
> It would be nice if we could use a similar scheme like autopkgtests uses
> to delay migration for other tests, like sid-strict or testing2sid.
> As in "if your package leaves files after purge, you don't get the
> migration reduction from 5 to 2 days"
> and for testing2sid (or stable2sid) there may be more false positives
> caused by other packages, so it would be great to at least delay
> migration by a few days as well, to allow manual inspection of the
> failure, I several times didn't manage to file a bug within 2 days of
> upload to prevent migration of a buggy package to testing ...
sounds like a splendid idea to me!
How can we get this going?
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cheers,
Holger
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