> The web interface should probably stop listing packages for which the last result > is older than some threshold, or add an annotation indicating the age or that the > package version is no longer current.https://ci.debian.net/packages/r/r-bioc-annotationdbi/unstable/amd64/ explicitly lists the date and package version of when the test was last run. anyway, even though it would be nice to somehow handle the case where a package has its test metadata removed, it is very low priority for me at the moment. as usual, patches are welcome.
Obsolete results show up in all kind of places, e.g. in the alerts page, in the status overview. I think it would be good for all practical displays we ignore results older than a threshold of, say, half a year.
This particularly annoys me a bit currently when I try to investigate tmpfails for loong64. Quite a lot of them have been removed from the archive.
There is a "removed" column in the packages database, but it's not clear what it's purpose is and if that should be used for this. I think not, as a package can be removed from unstable and testing but still exist in stable and oldstable for several years.
Paul
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