Am Mittwoch, 5. Juni 2024, 22:27:09 CEST schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: > On 5 June 2024 at 21:55, Paul Gevers wrote: > | Source: survival > | Version: 3.5-8-1 > | Severity: serious > | Control: close -1 3.6-4-1 > | Tags: sid trixie > | User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org > | Usertags: out-of-sync > | > | Dear maintainer(s), > | > | The Release Team considers packages that are out-of-sync between testing > | and unstable for more than 30 days as having a Release Critical bug in > | testing [1]. Your package src:survival has been trying to migrate for 40 > | days [2]. Hence, I am filing this bug. The version in unstable triggers > | autopkgtest failure in r-cran-popepi. > | > | If a package is out of sync between unstable and testing for a longer > | period, this usually means that bugs in the package in testing cannot be > | fixed via unstable. Additionally, blocked packages can have impact on > | other packages, which makes preparing for the release more difficult. > | Finally, it often exposes issues with the package and/or > | its (reverse-)dependencies. We expect maintainers to fix issues that > | hamper the migration of their package in a timely manner. > | > | This bug will trigger auto-removal when appropriate. As with all new > | bugs, there will be at least 30 days before the package is auto-removed. > | > | I have immediately closed this bug with the version in unstable, so if > | that version or a later version migrates, this bug will no longer affect > | testing. I have also tagged this bug to only affect sid and trixie, so > | it doesn't affect (old-)stable. > | > | If you believe your package is unable to migrate to testing due to > | issues beyond your control, don't hesitate to contact the Release Team. > > It is beyond my control that package r-cran-popepi descides to run > autopkgtests that than hijack and blackmail this package of mine. > > Maybe the maintainers of r-cran-popepi should look at their package tracker > and eg attempt to update to a _current_ version? That's how things work at > CRAN.
A look at the ChangeLog of popEpi confirms that that package just needs an update: News for version 0.4.12 Unit tests No changes in the package itself — fixed a unit test that used the output of survival::summmary.survfit which had improved slightly in 3.6-4. Should we reassign the bug to r-cran-popepi? Johannes > I am really tired of this here in Debian. If the package gets autoremoved, > so be it. The blame will rest with the so-called maintainer team for these > R package that are effectively taking down maintained packages of mine. > > Dirk > > | Paul > | > | [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2023/06/msg00001.html > | [2] https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=survival > | > | x[DELETED ATTACHMENT OpenPGP_signature.asc, application/pgp-signature]
