Quoting Adam D. Barratt (2014-09-05 13:22:06)
> Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org
> 
> On 2014-09-05 11:52, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> Seems from <https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=ghostscript> 
>> and 
>> <https://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=ghostscript> 
>> that binary package ghostscript-cups needs to explicitly be removed 
>> from testing to allow new release (which has that package dropped) is 
>> allowed to migrate to testing.
>
> No, it needs to be removed _from unstable_. Binary packages are not 
> individually removed from testing other than as part of an automatic 
> migration. (and in any case removal from testing wouldn't help, as the 
> outdated packages would still be _in unstable_.)
>
>> ...and reportbug tells me you are the ones to task to about that.
>
> If your choice of suite were correct, sure. :-) As it's not, it's not.
>
> I'm re-assigning this to ftp.d.o rather than closing it, but to save 
> people checking, the reason that the package isn't getting 
> semi-autoremoved by the FTP team is:
> 
>      dak rm -m "[auto-cruft] NBS (no longer built by ghostscript)" -s 
> unstable -a 
> amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,hurd-i386,i386,kfreebsd-amd64,kfreebsd-i386,mips,mipsel,powerpc,ppc64el,s390x,sparc
>  
> -p -R -b ghostscript-cups
>    - broken Depends:
>      splix: printer-driver-splix

Thanks for the explanation.  I will file a severe bugreport against 
printer-driver-splix.


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