Release file for 'intrepid' (not intrepid-updates' keeps getting updated (and date is updated too)

[Michael Vogt]

Looking at

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/intrepid/Release

it seem like the Release file is updated for a released distro and the date is kept getting updated too.

This is a problem because the code in synaptic/gnome-app-install that figures out when the support ends is relying on the fact that a released distribution is frozen and the release file date does not change anymore.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

If you fix it, please "rewind" the date in the release file for intrepid stable as well (if possible) so that the support time calculations in synaptic/gnome-app-install will be correct.

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

Looks like it's happening for all distroseries, not just Intrepid.

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

We think this is because there was a package deleted in the publishing cycle just before the series was promoted to the "current" state, and the domination process never had a chance to run.

This is obviously still a bug, so we'll prevent the Release file from updating, but you might want to avoid deleting packages so close to release :)

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

RF 7269

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

Michael, can you ping someone with production access to fix this. Cprov, for example :)

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

Err, s/fix/update the date/