Paul Gevers writes ("Re: Half the world being removed"): > On 02-09-2022 07:27, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 01, 2022 at 11:04:38PM -0500, Steven Robbins wrote: > >> Suddenly half the packages are marked AUTOREMOVE; many due to gcc-12 and > >> zlib. > >> The related two bugs are months-old. > >> > >> Why are things suddenly being removed?? > > Both are key packages per > > https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/key_packages.yaml.cgi so it must be some > > recent problem that causes the things to ignore that. > > I'll look into it tonight (UTC+2). I did make one change to udd > yesterday. I thought it was safe because I just reverted an exception to > allow scikit-learns removal. > > There are probably bugs involved.
Thanks. I don't want to add to the stressball but: this isn't the first time that we've had malfunctions which want to remove very large numbers of packages. Obviously this is a complicated algorithm and I understand that there will be bugs. I wonder if it would be possible to detect a sudden large increase in the number of autoremovals, and stop the autoremoval system instead of causing blaring klaxons for everyone in the project ? That might make the failures less disruptive. (And would avoid having everyone pile-on.) Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.