On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 12:48:47AM +0200, Tomasz Nitecki wrote:
>...
> > <CUT>
> > Not sure whether it is related to what Paul is doing, but I would call
> > it a bug that how-can-i-help (without --old) lists a package under
> > "New packages going to be removed from Debian 'testing'" each time
> > a comment to a bug report moved that removal further into the future.
> >
> > As an example, "how-can-i-help --all" currently lists fpc and all it's
> > rdeps every day again as "new" due to the discussion in #826300.
>
> At the moment, we are deciding if autoremoval is new based on: source,
> version and removal time. If the removal time changes, package is going
> to be shown again. We could probably change 'removal time' to 'first
> seen' (first appearance of autorm bug), but first I will have to confirm
> that this field works as I think it does.
>
> Anyway, I believe that this subject is not related to this (#835653)
> pending bug, so how about we move to a new (possibly wishlist?) bug report?
>...
Created as #837916
> Regards,
> T.
cu
Adrian
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