Hi, On 26-11-2023 18:20, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
The only remaining issue is an autopkgtest failure of octave in testing, reported as #1056392. I’ve argued there that this issue only affects partial upgrades, and that I’m not sure how to fix it (if fixing is needed at all). Please advise.
Although I'm not 100% sure, I think that cases like this are imperfections in our upgrade system. I believe that we started to care much more about partial upgrades since we started using autopkgtest, but I don't think we have the means (apart for always tightening relations and giving up much of the flexibility we so much appreciate) to fix skew in a mechanical way (particularly in transitions and our use of binNMUs), hence I think it's OK to occasionally let this happen currently.
I have rescheduled the failing tests with octave from unstable, which should automatically resolve the migration blocker. (There are several conditions where britney2 already does this trick automatically and where potential broken partial upgrades are not prevented either, so this is matching status quo).
Paul
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