• Re: package marked to auto removal due to a problem with its dependency

    From Niels Thykier@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 15 07:00:01 2024
    Lajos Veres:
    Hi,

    I have got this email a few days ago:

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    If I understand well this package
    https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ksh93u+m
    had an issue. ( https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1073656 ) Which causes the trouble.
    (Misspell-fixer has a build dependency on shunit which has a dependency on this.)
    That bug seems to have a fix, but that has not arrived yet to testing.

    1. Do I need to do anything to prevent misspell-fixer to be removed? I
    could remove the tests and the build dependency, but that would be quite hacky. Ideally, I would avoid that.
    2. Can you help me to understand why the ksh package has not been migrated
    to testing yet? Is that related to the armhf regression?

    Thank you.

    Best regards,

    Hi Lajos

    FYI, then Debian very recently started to document more about how to
    handle these removals at https://wiki.debian.org/Autoremoval (I think
    future emails will have a link to this wiki page).

    Hopefully you will find the answers you need there for 1. (or help
    document them in case you are not finding the answers).

    For 2., it seems to me that ksh93u+m is attributed with autopkgtest
    regressions since the upload. I did not look at the test results so can
    be anything from flaky tests to a regression on the relevant architecture.

    Best regards,
    Niels

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