bin/common-functions: broken packages (which thus cannot be marked as tested) won't block other packages after $max_package_age_broken_testing days

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/bin/common-functions b/bin/common-functions
index b133373..394720b 100755
--- a/bin/common-functions
+++ b/bin/common-functions
@@ -1142,6 +1142,12 @@ print_list_of_archaic_packages() {
         find "${work_dir}/package-states" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -name '*.testing' -mtime "+${max_package_age_testing}" \
           -exec head -n1 {} \; | \
           "${base_dir}/bin/modify-package-state" -n --tested /dev/stdin
+        # packages remaining longer than $max_package_age_broken_testing days in testing (w/o being tested!) will be considered outdated
+        # and no longer block other packages from being moved
+        find "${work_dir}/package-states" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -name '*.testing' -mtime "+${max_package_age_broken_testing}" -printf '%f\n' \
+          sed '
+            s|\.testing$||
+          '
       ;;
       'build-list')
         while read -r pkg rev mod_rev repo; do
diff --git a/conf/default.conf b/conf/default.conf
index de14704..4260921 100755
--- a/conf/default.conf
+++ b/conf/default.conf
@@ -50,6 +50,9 @@ fi
 # block other packages anymore
 max_package_age_build_list=7
 max_package_age_staging=2
+max_package_age_broken_testing=14
+# after how many days will a package in testing be automatically marked as
+# tested (if there is no open bug against it)
 max_package_age_testing=7
 
 # to access the master mirror via rsync