On Sun, 24 Jul 2016 13:51:45 +0100 Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > On 2016-07-24 11:20, Francesco Poli wrote: [...] > > Dear Release Team, could you please explain what I failed to understand > > about the testing migration rules [2]? > > Your understanding is correct - an RC bug affecting sid and not testing > is considered a regression and blocks migration, whereas one which > affects both suites does not.
Good, thanks for confirming! > > Britney is fed that information from the BTS. The migration happened > because on 2016-07-18T22:00 #830267 was a regression, but on > 2016-07-19T10:00 it was marked as also affecting testing, so the package > was migrated. I don't know what happened in the BTS to cause that > change, certainly nothing on the bug log that I can see. I hope it's possible to investigate further, in order to find out what really happened: needless to say, I think that the correctness of the migration process is of great importance to the quality of Debian testing (and, consequently, of future stable releases!). Should <owner@bugs.d.o> be contacted, perhaps? -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/ There's not a second to spare! To the laboratory! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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