Oops, I am deeply sorry that I have sent this under the wrong email address. Especially sorry to you, Gilles. I have no idea how this happened (Thunderbird with virtual_identity; I probably mixed up something there), and it was not intentional.
Best Ole > Hi Sebastian, > > On 03.12.18 00:15, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:> Unfortunately the > autopkgtests for 0.9.9-1 still fail [0], and since> it's blocking the > migration of hdf5 it makes the package unsuitable for> release > justifying the RC severity [1]. > Sorry, but I don't see this: gdl does not *break* hdf5 ("break" means > IMO that a package that worked before does not work anymore -- but hdf5 > still works nicely, right?), and it also does not block the transition. > > As far as I know, CI tests are currently setup in a non-blocking way. > And when I look into the maintainer page of hdf5, it says > > "Required age increased by 30 days because of autopkgtest". > > This is not a block, this is just a delay. There never was a statement > that failing CI tests are RC (or would become so before buster). > > So, you you please be a bit more explicit how the RC policy applies here? > > Best regards > > Ole >