Your message dated Mon, 31 Mar 2014 00:43:48 +0200 with message-id <20140330224346.ga1...@ugent.be> and subject line Re: auto-removals: No notication to rdeps when they are in danger has caused the Debian Bug report #734396, regarding auto-removals: No notication to rdeps when they are in danger to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: release.debian.org Severity: serious Control: owner -1 ! When a package with reverse dependencies are considered for auto-removal, the maintainers of receive dependencies do not receive a notication. This is a problem because these maintainers are then surprised when their package is suddenly removed "without notice"[1]. We need to ensure that maintainers of reverse dependencies receive adequate notice of the pending removal of their package. Having reflected a bit on the issue after it was mentioned on IRC, I consider the lack of this notication severe enough that we should consider temporarily suspending non-leaf / recursive removals until resolved. However, I believe the "leaf-removal" case to have sufficient notication (the RC bug itself being that notice). That said, I would still welcome them receiving a reminder when their package is put on the auto-removal list. The best suggestion I heard so far is mailing ${package}@packages.d.o, when the package appears on the auto-removal list. It would definitely be a "push"-notication and it was considered sufficient by the maintainers when we did these removals manually. ~Niels [1] I am well aware of the auto-removal data sources and the UDD bugs cgi script, but it is "pull" rather than "push" notication. Even if #727048 was resolved, I am not sure it counts as "push" - although, it would definitely improve the situation.
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--- Begin Message ---Hi Niels, On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 09:28:47PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > When a package with reverse dependencies are considered for > auto-removal, the maintainers of receive dependencies do not receive a > notication. Maintainers now get notifications for auto-removals. Recursive auto-removals are active again. Cheers, Ivo
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