On 2021-11-14 at 12:21, Patrice Duroux wrote: > Hi, > > I am curious about the reason to see cockpit listed here: > https://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html > whereas cockpit currently is 257 in Sid: > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/cockpit
I'm not terribly familiar with this interface, but just offhand, my suspicion would be that the key here is the fact that the listed versions are listed as being in experimental. Without being able to look at more of the actual code and/or workflow involved here, my guess would be that what happened is: cockpit 243-1 was uploaded, targeting experimental, and was accepted. cockpit 243-2 was uploaded, targeting experimental, but was never accepted or rejected. cockpit 244-1 was uploaded, targeting experimental, but was never accepted or rejected. cockpit 251-2 was uploaded, targeting experimental, but was never accepted or rejected. cockpit 257-1 was uploaded, targeting sid, and was accepted. The intermediary versions have not (yet) cleared out of the queue. The history on the tracker.debian.org page seems to be consistent with that; in fact, it appears from that as if 251-1 was accepted into unstable, and the versions newer than that didn't have to go through NEW at all. Where 251-2 came into it is less clear; we'd probably have to examine the history of the development of this package, and the discussions surrounding it, to get that information. > Is this a bug? Are there other cases like this? If the above scenario is correct, then I imagine the fact that old versions are not cleared out when a new one is accepted could be considered such, and it wouldn't surprise me if there were more examples where that had happened. > Not sure where to report if there is something to do about this. I'm not sure either. I think there's a ftp-masters E-mail address; whether there's a pseudopackage for bug reports, etc., or not I'm not sure. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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