On 2014-10-22 12:36, Bart Martens wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:18:34AM +0200, Markus Wanner wrote: >> On 10/20/2014 09:37 PM, Christian Kastner wrote: >> > I'm afraid this is not the case, some of my packages still show >> > month-old dates, eg: >> >> That's not necessarily an indication of the service not working. It's an >> indication of a low frequency of the checks, yes. >> >> > https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/watch?pkg=python-keyczar >> > https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/watch?pkg=libocas >> > https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/watch?pkg=libcgroup >> >> python-keyczar updated, by now, which is an indication of the service >> working. The other two didn't. >> >> > Is it possible that the check is only performed on a monthly basis? If >> > not, the bug should probably be reopend. >> >> I tried to find the source code for whatever service does these queries, >> but couldn't find it. I'm sorry, I cannot answer the question about >> frequency of checks. > > I can. The frequency is different per package, depending on the number of > past > failures. The frequency exponentially slows down with more failures. There > must have been a general problem, because we have many packages with high > retry > counts. I'm now lowering the retry counts manually to speed up processing.
Oh, I see. That is reasonable. BTW, I think #764999 could be another instance of this issue. > The source code is here : > anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/qa/trunk/mole/watch-requeue/watch-requeue.pl?view=markup > Look for "number of days to wait before trying again". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org