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Re: BTS lost most of its version tracking data!



On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 03:37:47PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote:
> So many RC bugs introduced into testing, due this BTS version tracking
> issue?!?

Yes.
compare this two list of daily testing migration:
regular migration: https://lists.debian.org/debian-testing-changes/2016/12/msg00043.html
broken migration: https://lists.debian.org/debian-testing-changes/2016/12/msg00044.html

> Could this harm the release process?

I guess, a bit..

> It seems a bit unfair that some packages won't be part of stretch, due
> to a BTS glitch which happened during the last days before the soft
> freeze.

It's kinda the reverse: now *a lot* of packages have another month of
time to be fixed, when before they would have been out of testing
already without any chance of re-entering it.

> What can be done about this unfortunate situation?

go fix RC bugs.

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