On Mon, 25 Jul 2016, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > [dropped #830267 from CC; it's not directly relevant to this branch of the > discussion] > > On 2016-07-24 17:43, Don Armstrong wrote: > >On Sun, 24 Jul 2016, Francesco Poli wrote: > [...] > >>could you please investigate on what happened to bug #830267 on > >>2016-07-19T10:00 ? > >> > >>Please take a look at > >>https://bugs.debian.org/830267#20 > >>https://bugs.debian.org/830267#25 > >>for more context. > > > >Hrm; it was shown as affecting testing at T0600 (and all subsequent > >runs): > > > >status-201607190600:number=830267 > >status-201607190600-testing=1 > >status-201607190600-unstable=1 > > > >but not on the immediately preceding run: > [...] > >That's really odd; I haven't changed anything on the BTS side during > >that time period which would explain that happening. > > > >Unfortunately, I don't know when the BTS thought that 1.18.9 was > >actually in testing and not in unstable. I'll try to check out snapshots > >later this week to see if I can figure out when the transition actually > >happened, or if there was something else going on in the archive to > >explain it. > > Does the BTS take account of entries in Sources marked > "Extra-Source-Only: yes" when determining bugginess?
No, we totally ignore that field. > If so, a possible explanation is that debsig-verify 0.15 migrated to > testing overnight on the 18th/19th. The binary packages have > "Built-Using: dpkg (= 1.18.9)", which would have led dak to add the > corresponding source package to testing with an E-S-O marker. Ah. Yep, that definitely explains it. OK, this is going to take a bit of work; I think the short-term answer is for the BTS to completely ignore source entries which are Extra-Source-Only: yes I'll try to get to that shortly so we don't have more bad migrations like this in the future. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com "I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out there." "There might as well be, [...] but most of it gets spent on pornography, sugar water, and bombs. There is only so much that can be scraped together for particle accelerators." -- Neal Stephenson _Anathem_ p262
