Hi, On 11-03-2025 00:41, Gabriel F. T. Gomes wrote:
I think it is impossible to do what you're suggesting. And I agree with Gregor Herrmann that it doesn't make sense. Shouldn't we test the new package?
I'm the first to admit that properly testing transitions in the Debian CI setup is a hard problem because of trade-offs. How it currently works is that britney2 tries to figure out for a source package in unstable what packages need to come from unstable in order to fulfill the test requirements of a reverse (test) dependency in testing. Because libraries are typically co-installable, britney2 doesn't currently know that we have a rebuild that we want to test (bug 944458). However, if we are going to wait for rebuilds and their test results, we basically loose the ability to do smooth-updates, which make transitions longer/harder. So far, we have not fixed bug 944458 because of that.
That does mean that occasionally we run into issues where tests fail, but so far we've been able to manage that.
Paul
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